September News Roundup 

Each month, we round up diabetes-related news and insights from trusted sources to provide you with ideas, tips, education and more to help you live your best life.   

Here’s the latest! 

Scientists Find Vitamin D May Lower Blood Sugar and Prevent Diabetes  

Prevention 
More than one in three American adults has prediabetes, a condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. While prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are complicated conditions, new research suggests taking a vitamin D supplement may help lower blood sugar in certain groups. Read more. 

Type 2 Diabetes Prevented with Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Exercise

CNN Health 
A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. Read more. 

Breath Test for Diabetes Under Development 

US News and World Report  
An experimental breath test sorted out type 2 diabetes patients from healthy people, based on their exhalations, researchers report in the September issue of the Chemical Engineering Journal. If validated, this test could prove simpler than the complicated blood testing and lab work now required to diagnose diabetes, researchers said. Read more.  

The Supplement that Could Help with Weight Loss for People with Diabetes

The Independent 
A new study suggests turmeric, specifically its active compound curcumin, may offer help with weight management for people with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The meta-analysis published in the Nutrition & Diabetes journal reviewed 14 clinical trials focusing on type 2 diabetes and turmeric or curcumin supplementation. Read more. 

Brain Might Become Target of Type-1 Diabetes Treatments

UW Medicine | Newsroom 
More than a decade ago, researchers found that an acute complication of type 1 diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), can be resolved with the hormone leptin, even in the absence of insulin. Read more.

Immune-dodging Cells Could Give Diabetes Treatment a Shot in the Arm

Science 
In December 2024, a 42-year-old Swedish man received 17 injections of genetically altered pancreatic cells into his left arm as part of the first human test of a novel treatment for type 1 diabetes. The goal was to deliver insulin-producing cells that are invisible to the immune system, potentially sparing patients from having to also take drugs that suppress the immune response. Read more.