Using waist-to-height ratio is more effective at predicting an individual’s heart disease risk than body mass index (BMI), latest research has underscored. A new study from UPMC and the University of ...

A new study from the Korea University Ansan Hospital has found that obstructive sleep apnoea can trigger cerebral microbleeds – small, chronic haemorrhages in the brain, likely caused by weakened ...

A review of 17 studies reports a fourfold increase in risk and ties worse hearing to longer disease duration and higher HbA1c. People with type 2 diabetes are significantly more likely to have hearing ...

A cup of caffeinated coffee each day may lower the risk of an irregular heart rhythm coming back after treatment. That is the headline finding from the DECAF trial, published in JAMA, which tracked ...

Bacon and ham products should carry cancer warnings, experts have said. Scientists are calling for these meats to carry health warnings similar to those on cigarettes after research has shown they are ...

The authors said: “T2D remission is not rare after initiation GLP-1RA, its frequency and duration varying by definition. When achieved, remission is associated with durable metabolic improvements up ...

In most cases, this manifested as reduced DNA methylation activity. As this process plays a key role in a number of biological functions, it could suggest a link between eating more UPF and adverse ...

Children born to mothers with type 1 diabetes appear to carry a protective epigenetic imprint that lowers their chances of developing early islet autoimmunity, the presymptomatic stage that often ...

Adding a banana to a smoothie impacts how much nutrition from other foods your body absorbs, new research has shown. The study authors say their findings highlights how food combinations can affect ...

Cooking helps to retain the heme iron content, with beef preserving the highest levels, followed by pork, fish, and chicken. Non-heme iron is less efficiently absorbed but iron-rich examples include ...

In an article in The Conversation, Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Bristol, admits he does not buy bags of goodies in readiness for ...