Was honoured to be an invited speaker at this excellent (and oversubscribed) meeting - next year register early!

A new and increasingly widely used diabetes medication may have additional health benefits for older adults, according to new University of Glasgow research which looked at data from more than 300,000 patients. UofG MVLS UofG School of Health & Wellbeing More ➡️ gla.ac/40YaaXJ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Out now in JAMA from David McAllister of UofG School of Health & Wellbeing - individual patient data meta-analysis and meta-regression - SGLT2is were more cardioprotective in older people (despite smaller reductions in HbA1c) and GLP-1 RAs were more cardioprotective in younger people

Stopping Versus Continuing Metformin in Patients With Advanced CKD: A Nationwide Scottish Target Trial Emulation Study bit.ly/3CFBHmW #OpenAccess Emilie Julie Lambourg Edouard L. Fu @C_H_Grant John Petrie Samira Bell #VisualAbstract #CKD

Who would have thought that our Diabetes (and cardiology) academic brethren would be converted to public-health pin-up models. Prof. John Buse @unc FTW! nytimes.com/2025/02/10/hea… Gina Kolata

Now data on metformin benefits and hearing loss! Metformin use is associated with a dose-dependent reduction in hearing loss risk and lower mortality in people with T2 diabetes! Metformin keep giving! dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Most RCTs in T2 diabetes exclude older people Systematic review of 594 trials Also exclusion of people with multiple long term conditions (multimorbidity) Sensible recommendations below dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Professor Olivia Wu will lead the NIHR's National Research Collaboration and Better Methods, Better Research programmes. National Institute for Health and Care Research UofG MVLS HEHTA nihr.ac.uk/news/new-direc…

Emilie Julie Lambourg Edouard L. Fu @C_H_Grant John Petrie Samira Bell Editorial by Jung-Im Shin, Antoine Créon, and Juan Jesus Carrero: Metformin in People With Diabetes and Advanced CKD: Should We Dare? bit.ly/EDShin24 (FREE)

And we’re funding Dr Sharon Mackin Sharon Mackin who’s using datasets to move towards better decisions in pregnancy with #diabetes👇 diabetes.org.uk/our-research/a…

Congratulations to Professor Naveed Sattar on being awarded the Edwin Bierman Award by the American Diabetes Association. Metabolic Medicine

Torrid Skrivarhaug sharing how Norway dropped HbA1c from 8.2% to 7.2% over last 10 yrr @ Scottish study group meeting Diabetes Technology Network UK DTN-UK ABCD Diabetes

New opportunity in ImperialCTU for a Lecturer in Digital Health & Clinical Trials. Its all about data-enabled and decentralised trials. Seeking an experienced methodologist who is looking for a new leadership and research role. Details shorturl.at/IioXW Closing 5th May

We are transforming the clinical trials ecosystem here University of Glasgow. So I’m very happy to discuss this new opportunity with interested candidates.

Incredible news! 🥳 The Bukhman Foundation has just pledged £100 million to support type 1 diabetes research around the world - another defining moment in the push towards better treatments and a cure. Interested in finding out more? Head to: orlo.uk/0siSM

Congratulations to Professor Amanda I Adler, Professor of Diabetic Medicine and Health Policy at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford on her new appointment as the Chair of the Clinical Evaluation and Trials funding committee for our Health Technology Assessment