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New data on COVID-19 patients with diabetes show that one in five die within 28 days of hospital admission
Embargo: 2301H UK time Wednesday 17 February Updated results from the CORONADO study, analysing the…

Higher excess COVID-19 death risk in middle-aged people with type 2 diabetes raises vaccine prioritisation questions
Embargo: 2301H UK time Mon 8 Feb A largescale analysis led by the University of…

Study of 1.3 million people reveals the devastating impact and hidden danger of type 2 diabetes diagnosis in younger adults
Embargo 2301H UK time Monday 14 December Type 2 diabetes and its complications are often…

Diabetes set to devastate India’s metropolitan cities, with more than half of men and two thirds of women currently aged 20 years projected to develop the condition in their lifetime
Embargo: 2301H UK time Monday 23 November Disturbing new research published in Diabetologia (the journal…

Type 1 diabetes could begin in the womb, new research suggests
Previously it was thought that children under six months could only develop neonatal diabetes New…

Study shows similar antibody response to key SARS-CoV-2 ‘spike’ protein in COVID-19 patients both with and without diabetes, boosting hopes that new vaccines will protect vulnerable diabetic patients
Because antibody response is similar in patients and with and without diabetes, this response is…

Insomnia identified as a new risk factor for type 2 diabetes in new study which also confirms many other risk and protective factors
A new ‘global atlas’ study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for…

Study finds link between too much or too little sleep and increased death rates in patients with or without diabetes
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of…

Study links abnormally high blood sugar with higher risk of death in COVID-19 patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes
Embargo: 2301H UK time Friday 10 July New research from Wuhan, China shows that, in…

First study of COVID-19 patients with diabetes shows that 10% die within seven days of hospital admission and two thirds are men
The first study of COVID-19 to specifically analyse the effect of the disease in hospitalised…