Diabetes

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The Advisory Panel laid out 4 priority actions for clinicians, policy makers, and industry.

Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, discusses common side effects of GLP-1 medications for obesity and how nutritional and behavioral strategies can help mitigate them.

Coauthor of a recent joint advisory, Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, explains how it emerged in response to the growing use of GLP-1 medications for obesity treatment.

Obesity medicine specialist Monu Khanna, MD, discusses the critical role of primary care in obesity-related risk reduction through lifestyle, behavior, and emerging therapies.

Both metformin and GLP-1 RAs have been studies for their neuroprotective effects; this study is the first head-to-head investigation and supports further research.

Monu Khanna, MD, offers 3 takeaways for primary care: address obesity as root cause, reduce stigma, and explore new treatments to reduce cardiovascular risk.

Type 2 diabetes and its high and rising rates in the US are the result of a perfect storm of converging systemic, behavioral, environmental, and economic factors.

Dr Khanna discusses how PCPs can use patient relationships to tailor lifestyle advice and manage obesity-related cardiometabolic disease.

Dr Khanna urges early screening for cardiometabolic risk in patients with obesity and highlights the role of primary care in prevention and education.

Without a shift in the approach to disease prevention and management in the US, the health system won't be able to handle the burden of our morbidity, says Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA.

ENDO 2025: The publications reflect growing consensus that integration of endocrine screening into standard clinical workflows is essential for early risk detection and long-term disease prevention.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, led the development of lifestyle medicine guidelines to treat or even reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Lead author for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's new clinical practice guideline discusses the broad endorsement for the recommendations across participating groups.

Lifestyle medicine integrates a spectrum of therapeutic lifestyle interventions best delivered by specialists who are often available to create a "virtual" team.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, lead author of new guidelines on sustained lifestyle change as central to treating, even reversing T2D, answers the question.

GLP-1 medications are transforming obesity medicine but strong evidence points to a need for integrating nutrition and lifestyle support for lasting weight loss and health benefits.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, explains how clinical guidelines for diabetes remission from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine differ from and augment existing recommendations.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine recently published "that guideline," and lead author Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, says the timing was right.

Caissa Troutman, MD, discusses how clinicians can tailor management plans to reduce risk of developing T2D in patients with obesity.

ADA 2025: Dapiglutide showed promising safety and weight loss results in a phase 1b trial, targeting obesity and inflammation with once-weekly dosing.

Obesity treatment evolves as GLP-1 medication use surges 587%, while bariatric surgery rates decline significantly. A new analysis parses the trends.

ADA 2025: Once-monthly dosing led to significant weight loss in adults with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, reported researchers.

ADA 2025: Mifepristone lowered HbA1c levels by about 1.5% over 24 weeks vs placebo among participants with hypercortisolism and inadequately controlled T2D.

ADA 2025: Orforglipron lowered HbA1C by an average of 1.3% to 1.6% across doses, with improvements seen as early as 4 weeks, in a phase 3 trial.

ADA 2025: Insulin efsitora proved noninferior to daily insulin glargine for reducing HbA1c, resulted in fewer episodes of hypoglycemia, and required fewer dose adjustments.

Advances in obesity pharmacotherapy will be the focus of numerous late-breaking science sessions at ADA 2025; snapshots of 5 studies follow.

The ADA unveils the association's first Standards of Care for Overweight and Obesity, with a chapter on weight stigma and bias one of the first released.

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For individuals with T2D, findings are more than numeric; a 5-mm Hg reduction in SBP reduces stroke risk by 14%, CV events by 6%, and heart failure by 8%, authors wrote.