METRO Consultancy

01/09/2021

NEW research looked at patient level data for ~30 million people vaccinated in England and found that thrombosis risks associated with covid-19 vaccines are lower than that associated with covid-19 infection http://ow.ly/J2h450G0Ef9

06/11/2020

PREVIEW diabetes prevention 3-year study paper has finally been published

Aim To compare the impact of two long‐term weight‐maintenance diets, a high protein (HP) and low glycaemic index (GI) diet versus a moderate protein (MP) and moderate GI diet, combined with either h...

07/03/2020

My views on Maltitol ...

The innocent supermarket lollies that may give you violent diarrhoea

These lollies seem innocuous, but could send you running to the bathroom.

13/06/2019

Amazing results from the Da Qing study 30 years post implementation still showing beneficial results and longer life expectancy 💖 👍🏻

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2019 Jun;7(6):452-461. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(19)30093-2. Epub 2019 Apr 26.

04/01/2019

So true ... individualised patient care and sustainability is very important.

05/05/2018

Cognitive decline increases with diabetes and prediabetes... so let’s prevent T2D

03/05/2018

Diabetes in Pregnancy 🤰- very good up-to-date info - many challenges ahead

Every 10 years, the Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group, a study group of the EASD, conducts an audit meeting to review the achievements of the preceding decade and to set the directions for research and...

25/04/2018

Well done UK 🇬🇧 this is an amazing tool. Something New Zealand needs...

17/02/2018

A DiRECT study in NZ? Coming soon...

On the 5th December 2017 the 12 month primary outcome results of the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) were presented at the International Diabetes Federation Congress hosted in Abu Dhabi. Talks were delivered by both Professor Roy Taylor and Professor Mike Lean, with both pictured here wit...

30/01/2018

Vegetarians can be unhealthy and meat eaters can be healthy ...

They mostly eat vegetarian food, but have the occasional meat treat.

01/01/2018

The Ministry of Health Clinical Guidelines on Weight Management in Adults (led by Prof. Jim Mann) has just been released. More evidence using low energy diets (LED) such as Cambridge Weight Plan (DiRECT, Counterbalance and PREVIEW study) and Optifast on weight loss with plans for regular support for weight loss maintainence.