Diet and exercise achieved diabetes remission in 27 of 50 participants — ScienceAlert - UA.NEWS

Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily a lifelong diagnosis or a disease that gets progressively worse over time. Today, there is strong evidence to suggest that the risk of developing this metabolic disorder can be reduced by up to 58 percent in people who have prediabetes. Diet and exercise are a key part of that. Researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) and Canada have now identified a way to put more than 50 percent of patients with early onset type 2 diabetes into remission. It involves a low-calorie diet and a supervised exercise program. "Our remission rates are at the upper end of those previously reported in the literature for trials of similar duration," the authors write, led by Kaberi Dasgupta at McGill University in Canada. These findings, the team argues, reinforce the potential of lifestyle interventions to "support clinically meaningful remission". They also demonstrate "for the first time that such effects can be achieved in a multi-ethnic population with early onset type 2 diabetes through a combined low-energy diet and structured exercise intervention.

A combination of low-energy diet and structured supervised exercise induced early-onset type 2 diabetes remission in adults with obesity, yielding significantly higher remission rates compared with standard usual care. HealthDay News — A combined intervention of low-energy diet (LED) and structured supervised exercise can induce remission in early-onset type 2 diabetes (EOT2D), with higher remission rates than usual care alone, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in The Lancet Regional Health: Americas to coincide with the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, held from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Milan.

On a seamount off the coast of Costa Rica, researchers described a new species of octocoral, Laurinque elenya, and established a new family for it — Laurinqueidae. The corals were found at depths of 360 to 529 meters during dives in 2019 and 2023, ScienceAlert reports. Unusual colony structureColonies of this coral grow to more than one meter in height and up to 1.2 meters in width. They have a densely branching structure covered with unusually elongated polyps — the small animals that make up a coral colony. The polyps can partially retract into the branches, while the sclerites — the coral’s microscopic skeletal structures — are distinguished by a range of shapes. Such a combination of features had not previously been recorded in a single species of octocoral. The new taxon was named Laurinque elenya; the name comes from Tolkien’s Elvish language Quenya and means “golden tree of stars.” The golden coral branches grow above a bottom almost completely covered with pink brittle stars. More current news is available on the UA. News Telegram channel Telegram. Genetic analysis determined the familyInitially, an analysis of three genetic markers did not produce an unambiguous result.