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Pre-eclampsia is one of the main causes of death in pregnant women. Researchers from China conducted a large multicenter retrospective study involving 53,054 singleton pregnancies in China and identified that elevated blood glucose levels in the first trimester and significant gestational blood glucose fluctuations increase the risk of pre-eclampsia in a U-shaped pattern. These findings provide new evidence for optimizing gestational glucose monitoring strategies, highlighting the need for enhanced blood glucose management.
Type 2 diabetes affects millions of people worldwide and now a new international study, jointly led by Adelaide University, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, and Stanford University, has found one in ten people may not be benefiting from common medications used to treat the condition.
A new analysis to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) examined daily oral orforglipron treatment for the treatment of obesity, with or without diabetes, in users aged 65 years and over, with results and a safety profile similar to that seen in the ATTAIN clinical trial programme population. Lead author for this post-hoc analysis is Dr Deborah Horn, Director of the Center for Obesity Medicine and Metabolic Performance at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, and colleagues.
New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) and published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health shows that doing around 8,500 steps a day can help people keep weight off after dieting.