Very-low-calorie diet-based intensive lifestyle intervention for remission of type 2 diabetes: Real-world experience in a South Asian population.

Aims: Very low-calorie diet (VLCD) can induce weight loss and diabetes remission (DR) amongst people with obesity and recent-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D). We aimed to determine the effectiveness and acceptability of VLCD in achieving DR amongst Sri Lankan adults with T2D.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted in a diabetes practice where VLCD-based Diabetes Remission Programme (VDRP) was offered for adults (>18 years) with T2D for <3 years and body mass index over 25 kg/m.

Dipicolylamine-Based Fluorescent Probes and Their Potential for the Quantification of Fe in Aqueous Solutions.

We have synthesized two ligand systems, N(SO)(R)dpa (L1) and N(SO)(R)dpa (L2), where R = biphenyl and R = azobenzene, which are sulfonamide derivatives of the NNN-donor chelating dipicolylamine. Both L1 and L2 can be used as sensors for detecting Fe and are highly sensitive and selective over a wide range of common cations. Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations confirmed that the key excitations of L2 and the [Fe(L2)(HO)] model complex involve -R-unit-based π and π* charge transfer.