#diabetes

#diabetes

Erythritol, a sugar substitute found in products marketed for diabetics, may increase the risk of stroke and heart attack due to its harmful effects on brain cells.

The results could lead to better prevention, diagnoses and treatment of prediabetes, diabetes and other metabolic diseases that lower quality of life and raise health care costs.

The study found that those who had been taking semaglutide or lixisenatide for at least six months had twice the risk of developing macular degeneration.

"They're naughty, in a sense, because we digest them rapidly and that creates a fast rise in blood sugar," says nutritionist Mindy Patterson, at Texas Woman's University in Houston.

The Ax-4 mission will test Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) and insulin stability in microgravity, potentially allowing insulin-dependent diabetes patients to participate in spaceflight.

The study found that, in people with prediabetes, metformin lowered the risk of diabetes by roughly a third; the life-style intervention cut the risk by more than half.