Type 1 Diabetes

Excessive weight gain due to intensive therapy can lead to increased cardiovascular risk factors.

Very low incidence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) was found in patients with childhood-onset diabetes type 1 in Norway.

An attempt to improve diet quality in youth with type 1 yields less than promising results.

Although the risk of end-stage renal disease remains high for individuals with type 1 diabetes, lifetime likelihood of ESRD has substantially decreased over the last 50 years.

Insulin resistance has been proposed as one of the causes of poor glycemic control in youth with type 1 diabetes who have excess weight or obesity.

Patients with type 1 diagnosed with depression said to be in danger of experiencing more severe episodes of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.

Young man, 21 years of age. type 1 diabetes since 9 years of age. Has not been to see hcp for a year. States he doesn’t like people interrogating him, but came in because he needs his insulin. States he doesn’t check his glucose because he can tell what it is. Tired of having type 1 diabetes and tired of checking numbers. A1C in office--10.2%.

Young patients with low BMIs, C-peptide levels, and significant symptoms at onset of diabetes at higher risk of undergoing rapid C-peptide decline.

By Sheri R. Colberg, PhD: Much of the research on length of life for individuals living with type 1 diabetes is pessimistic, which makes a new study released recently a breath of fresh air. Data were collected for the ongoing nationwide, multicenter, Finnish Diabetic Nephropathy (FinnDiane) Study that tracked the death rate of 2,639 study participants.

Trial shows HbA1c reduced, hypoglycemia and DKA similar across study participants.