Most Downloaded Papers From 2019
Diabetes research is ever evolving. A multidisciplinary approach has been crucial for the advances in diabetes management and therapy to date. At Diabetologia, we pride ourselves on publishing high-quality, cutting-edge research on all aspects of diabetes. To showcase the breadth of topics that we publish, we are pleased to present the most downloaded papers published in 2019 in each of the journal’s categories:

Consensus Report 2019 update to: Management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes, 2018. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
John B. Buse, Deborah J. Wexler, Apostolos Tsapas, Peter Rossing, Geltrude Mingrone, Chantal Mathieu, David A. D’Alessio, Melanie J. Davies
Systematic review/Meta-analysis: Diabetes as a risk factor for heart failure in women and men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 47 cohorts including 12 million individuals
Toshiaki Ohkuma, Yuji Komorita, Sanne A. E. Peters, Mark Woodward
Clinical Science and Care: Afternoon exercise is more efficacious than morning exercise at improving blood glucose levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes: a randomised crossover trial
Mladen Savikj, Brendan M. Gabriel, Petter S. Alm, Jonathon Smith, Kenneth Caidahl, Marie Björnholm, Tomas Fritz, Anna Krook, Juleen R. Zierath, Harriet Wallberg- Henriksson
Epidemiology: Associations of short stature and components of height with incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating effects of cardiometabolic risk factors
Clemens Wittenbecher, Olga Kuxhaus, Heiner Boeing, Norbert Stefan, Matthias B. Schulze
Genetics: Genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Africa
Ji Chen, Meng Sun, Adebowale Adeyemo, Fraser Pirie, Tommy Carstensen, Cristina Pomilla, Ayo P. Doumatey, Guanjie Chen, Elizabeth H. Young, Manjinder Sandhu, Andrew P. Morris, Inês Barroso, Mark I. McCarthy, Anubha Mahajan, Eleanor Wheeler, Charles N. Rotimi, Ayesha A. Motala
Islet Studies: Glucose controls glucagon secretion by directly modulating cAMP in alpha cells
Qian Yu, Hongyan Shuai, Parvin Ahooghalandari, Erik Gylfe, Anders Tengholm
Immunology and Transplantation: Circulating CXCR5−PD-1hi peripheral T helper cells are associated with progression to type 1 diabetes
Ilse Ekman, Emmi-Leena Ihantola, Tyyne Viisanen, Deepak A. Rao, Kirsti Näntö-Salonen, Mikael Knip, Riitta Veijola, Jorma Toppari, Jorma Ilonen, Tuure Kinnunen
Metabolism: Metformin-induced changes of the gut microbiota in healthy young men: results of a non-blinded, one-armed intervention study
Thomas Bryrup, Cæcilie W. Thomsen, Timo Kern, Kristine H. Allin, Ivan Brandslund, Niklas R. Jørgensen, Henrik Vestergaard, Torben Hansen, Tue H. Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Trine Nielsen