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Development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more likely to occur among patients with thyroid cancer who underwent thyroidectomy than matched controls, a Korea study has shown. In addition, a U-shaped dose-dependent relationship exists between the levothyroxine dosage and T2D risk.

A real-world propensity score-matched study in Hong Kong finds that, compared with use of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients is associated with lower risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF), stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA), and cardiovascular (CV) and all-cause mortality.

Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) may experience a temporary change in their blood glucose levels in the first week following COVID-19 vaccination, according to a small English study.

A mobile health intervention combining a smartphone app, a smart band, and counseling offers benefits in terms of weight loss, body composition variables, and time spent in light physical activity compared to counseling alone at 3 months among sedentary adults with overweight or obesity, results of the Evident 3 Study have shown.

Treatment with nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) results in lower risks of diabetes complications and mortality compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes mellitus (DM), suggest a study.

Patients with non-severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who have worse glycaemic status are more likely to deteriorate clinically, but glycaemic status does not adversely impact neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses, researchers from the University of Hong Kong have shown.