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BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

is an open access diabetes journal from the ADA and BMJ that strives to publish innovative studies on diabetes in all disciplines and therapeutic areas as quickly and transparently as possible.

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BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care is an open access journal committed to publishing high-quality basic and clinical research articles regarding type 1 and type 2 diabetes and associated complications. Submissions are subject to rigorous external peer review to ensure the publication of high-quality information. The online-only format allows for continuous updates and serves as an invaluable resource to the multidisciplinary community of endocrinology, public health/prevention and internal medicine.

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care is published by BMJ in partnership with the American Diabetes Association.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mandeep Bajaj, MD, FRCP, Baylor College of Medicine
Editorial Board

Journal Current Issue

Latest Articles

Psychosocial research:

Diabetes-related distress over time and its associations with glucose levels in school-aged children

1 June 2025

Emerging technologies, pharmacology and therapeutics:

Healthcare utilization and costs in adults with type 2 diabetes treated with first or second-generation basal insulins in England

28 May 2025

Metabolism:

Differences in fat distribution between metabolically unhealthy people with normal weight versus obesity, NHANES 2011–2018

28 May 2025

Cardiovascular and metabolic risk:

Relationship between time-varying achieved HbA1c and risk of coronary artery disease events among common haptoglobin phenotype groups with type 2 diabetes: the ADVANCE study

6 May 2025

Emerging technologies, pharmacology and therapeutics:

CASPAR: a retrospective cohort study of the high-concentration capsaicin topical system in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy of the feet

2 May 2025

Most Read Articles

Obesity studies:

Effect of weight-maintaining ketogenic diet on glycemic control and insulin sensitivity in obese T2D subjects

18 October 2024

Cardiovascular and metabolic risk:

Association between personality, lifestyle behaviors, and cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study of UK Biobank data

10 September 2024

Epidemiology/Health services research:

Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an observational study of 77 681 patients from the Swedish National Diabetes Registry

4 June 2024

Clinical care/Education/Nutrition:

A randomized, placebo-controlled study of chitosan gel for the treatment of chronic diabetic foot ulcers (the CHITOWOUND study)

23 June 2024

Cardiovascular and metabolic risk:

Recent trends in GLP-1 RA and SGLT2i use among people with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the USA

4 October 2024

Authors

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care accepts submissions of original research and reviews.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for BMJ DRC.

Information is also provided on editorial policy, Open Access fees and formatting.

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How sweet is your love? Disentangling the role of marital status and quality on average glycemic levels among adults 50 years and older in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
6 February 2023

PM2.5 exposure, glycemic markers and incidence of type 2 diabetes in two large Indian cities
5 October 2023

Weight stigma and bias: standards of care in overweight and obesity—2025
16 May 2025

Introduction and methodology: Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity—2025
16 May 2025

AI-enabled opportunistic measurement of liver steatosis in coronary artery calcium scans predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality: an AI-CVD study within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
12 April 2025