Endocrinology News

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, PhD, APRN, RN, CDCES, discusses important resources for schools to better care for children with type 1 diabetes.

A long-running cohort study found an association between frequent television viewing as a child and developing metabolic syndrome as an adult, according to results reported in Pediatrics.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was ranked No. 1 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best children’s hospitals for the first time.

CHICAGO—In this video exclusive, Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD, discusses recent legislation prohibiting or seeking to prohibit physicians from providing gender-confirming care.

Older children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes who received intensive diabetes management with automated insulin delivery had no difference in pancreatic C-peptide levels compared with standard care, according to study data.

Once-daily oral verapamil may help preserve stimulated C-peptide secretion for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA.

Young children using a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system had a greater time in range at 13 weeks compared with those receiving standard care, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Children with type 1 diabetes who switched from a predictive low-glucose suspend system to automated insulin delivery had improvements in time in range at 1 month that were sustained at 3 months, according to a speaker.

Adding more physical education classes in grades one to nine could help lower the prevalence of obesity among school-aged children, according to a study published in Obesity.

Compared with boys, girls with type 1 diabetes have worse HbA1c, higher BMI and more diabetic ketoacidosis and require higher insulin doses, according to a systematic review published in Diabetologia.