Type 1 Diabetes

D-Treat – A Diabetes Summer Retreat for Type 1 Young Adults  Hodia sponsors several diabetes camps for children and teens with diabetes, and now the organization is sponsoring a special retreat  for young adults (18-30 years old). The D-Treat is put on by young adults for young adults and will …

The therapy, aimed at caregivers, could provide a better treatment choice and easier administration to a patient…   Insulin therapy is the gold standard for patients with Type 1 diabetes, and about 30% of type 2 diabetic patients require insulin therapy. This therapy is used to control blood glucose and …

Certain changes in blood glucose levels over six months could indicate the onset of type 1 diabetes…. A progression scale for 6 months (PS6M) served as an indicator of short-term glycemic progression toward T1D, and could possibly be a useful tool for evaluating preventive treatments and biomarkers of T1D. Blood …

Exposure to low socioeconomic status appears to increase the risk for death in patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during childhood who died after age 18 years… This should add more incentive to make the social worker part of the diabetes team. The researchers wrote, “The current study indicates that …

By closely examining currently used diagnostic criteria, researchers evaluated whether it might be possible to diagnose type 1 earlier…. Today, diagnostic criteria for type 1 diabetes includes a glucose value ≥ 126 mg/dL and 2-h glucose values ≥ 200 mg/dL. These glucose values were selected because they correspond with observed …

It may be possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes in young children by measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood… This comes from new data from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study. Lead researcher Åke Lernmark, MD, PhD, of Lund University, said …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Insulin Pump Treatment (CSII) First used at the end of the 1970s, insulin pump therapy is standard treatment for type 1 diabetes, although use varies between countries (e.g. about 1–2% in the UK, probably more now; about 25% in USA, up to 40% in Norway). Only rapid-acting …

A novel insulin that automatically adjusts blood sugar may mitigate some of the complications associated with insulin dosing for patients with type 1 diabetes… Self-administered insulin is the most important therapeutic to provide control over blood glucose levels for patients with type 1 diabetes. However, standard insulin therapy introduces a …

A recent study discovers that there may be an association between breastfeeding and lowering risk of type 1 diabetes… The objective of this study was to determine the association of breast feeding duration with the risk of type 1 diabetes in genetically predisposed newborns. In addition, this study looked at …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Introduction Insulin treatment in type 1 diabetes is substitution/replacement hormone treatment, but replacement is much more variable and difficult to achieve than in other hormone deficiencies (e.g. thyroid, adrenal, gonadal hormones) because of the minute-by-minute variation in insulin secretion by the intact pancreas, which cannot yet be …