
Professor of Diabetes & Metabolic Medicine, Endocrinologist, Bariatric Physician #UniofNottingham #UHDB #EMBMI #Bariatricsurgery #OBSM
Derby, England
Joined November 2010
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Nutrients | Special Issue : Current Nutritional Perspective on Obesity or Interventions to Induce Weight Loss mdpi.com/journal/nutrients/s…
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More time to apply to the 2026 Rowan Hillson Inpatient Diabetes Awards!
This prestigious award celebrates innovation and excellence in inpatient diabetes care.
Projects improving safety, outcomes or patient experience are invited - submit by 24 July🏆 ow.ly/7bXA50YXvC4
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A coffee shop in Indonesia is going viral for hiring employees with Down syndrome and giving them a chance to work, connect with customers, and be part of the community ❤️
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A new comprehensive review on human adipose tissue from @ryden_mikael @karolinskainst @DiabetologiaJnl link.springer.com/article/10…
Roy Taylor (and Cliff Bailey) were my external examiners for my DM viva ~22 years ago! I was told prior to the viva that ‘..no one is more of an expert on your research than you…’ So it was a surprise that I was still learning about my own research in the ensuing 4hrs viva😩🤣🙏
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This is an excellent summary of the discussion from yesterday
And I would just add that the ketoCTA study was deeply flawed in its analysis and had been withdrawn so the fact that one of the authors has made a film and used the study as evidence is deeply concerning
Here is what a day of looking at one case taught me.
A GP posted that his wife has the highest cholesterol he has ever seen in 40 years of medicine.
UK 19 mmol/L. That is 735 mg/dL.
The Cholesterol Code documentary uses her case as part of its argument that the medicine has got cholesterol wrong.
Her cardiologist gave her the all clear. Two coronary scans, five years apart, both clean. Carotids clear.
I came in hard on the FH framing. That may have been too fast.
If her cholesterol is diet-induced on a ketogenic protocol rather than genetic, she may be a lean mass hyperresponder.
The LMHR phenotype exists and has been documented. Her short duration of exposure, combined with two clean serial scans from a cardiologist who specialises in cardiac CT and soft plaque imaging, is a materially different picture than a genetic FH patient with 60 years of ApoB loading from birth.
I do not know which one she is. Neither does the documentary. Her ApoB has not been published. Her genetic status has not been published.
What I do know is this.
The CTT Collaboration followed 170,000 patients across 26 randomised trials. Every 1 mmol/L reduction in LDL-C cuts major cardiovascular events by 22%.
PCSK9 loss-of-function carriers have lifetime-low ApoB and 88% fewer coronary events.
The Ference 2024 Nature Reviews Cardiology paper establishes that atherosclerotic risk is the product of ApoB particle burden multiplied by duration of exposure.
These findings do not disappear because one person with extraordinary cholesterol has two clean scans.
What Jen Unwin's case does is this: it raises the question of whether there is a subset of LMHR patients who sustain extreme LDL-C without accelerated plaque accumulation.
That is a legitimate scientific question. The KETO-CTA preprint tried to answer it and found median non-calcified plaque progression of 5.6mm3 in one year. It did not answer it definitively.
It is a preprint with no hard outcome data.
So here is where I land.
You cannot use one person with clean serial imaging to overturn 170,000-patient trial data.
And you cannot use 170,000-patient trial data to tell one person with clean serial imaging that she is definitely accumulating plaque.
Those are different arguments and they operate at different levels of evidence.
The right answer for Jen Unwin is ApoB measurement, genetic testing, and continued imaging. Not a documentary.
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📖Paper Title: Emerging Role of #Taste Receptors, Entero-Endocrine Cells in Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders
by Kyaw Linn Su Khin et al.
🛎️link: mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/5/759
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Submissions are invited for the Niru Goenka Memorial Lecture 2026 at the ABCD Conference. Consultants appointed within the last 10 years are encouraged to showcase pioneering work in diabetes care.
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Our research highlight publication: ‘Strength persists after a mid-life course of obesity drugs’. @MedicineUoN @UHDBTrust nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Really pleased to see this collaborative work now published: ‘Weight loss with GLP-1 medicines does not result in a disproportionate loss of muscle mass or function in obese mice and humans’ @MedicineUoN @UHDBTrust cell.com/cell-reports-medici…
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Weight loss with GLP-1 medicines does not result in a disproportionate loss of muscle mass or function in obese mice and humans: @CellRepMed cell.com/cell-reports-medici…
Emerging Role of Taste Receptors, Entero-Endocrine Cells in Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders @MedicineUoN @UHDBDiabEndo @UHDBTrust mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/5/759#
Congratulation to @GuyHolt_RNutr for his successful NIHR fellowship grant application @MedicineUoN #EMBMI #bariatric @UHDBTrust
Nottingham Centre of Metabolism, Ageing & Physiology (COMAP) PIs Xmas get together. 🙌🏼 @MedicineUoN
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HCPs working in diabetes in the UK. All NNUKRF 2026 funding awards are now open for applications. Research Grants, Clinical Projects, education funding and in collaboration with ABCD a research fellowship. nnukrf.org.uk for details and deadlines @ABCDiab @DSNforumUK
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Proud moment for Diabetes Community in UK Prof Andrew Hattersley from University of Exeter recipient of 56th Claude Bernard Lecture #EASD2025 @DiabetesUK
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ICYMI - Levemir insulin will be discontinued, with anticipated supply end of December 2026.
In response to this, ABCD & @PCDOSociety have published joint guidance to support clinicians in selecting and prescribing alternative insulins.
Access guidance 📄 ow.ly/btVp50WFZct
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The ABCD Midlands Regional Meeting returns to Birmingham on the 1st October 2025.
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