Pediatric Diabetes

Financial incentive programs to support diabetes self-management in families with adolescents with type 1 diabetes may improve health outcomes, according to a qualitative study published in Pediatric Diabetes.

The FDA approved Trijardy XR, the first oral therapy to combine three type 2 diabetes medications into one pill. It was the week’s top story in endocrinology.

Low-income countries offering a level of intermediate diabetes care can cost-effectively reduce disease complication rates and mortality when compared with a minimal care framework, according to a 30-year modeling analysis published in Pediatric Diabetes.

Presymptomatic type 1 diabetes increases the risk for developing clinical type 1 diabetes in children aged 2 to 5 years, but can be identified via islet autoantibody screening, according to findings published in JAMA.

A small cohort of healthy adolescents with type 1 diabetes showed signs of altered energy metabolism and cardiovascular autonomic regulation after an exercise test compared with peers of similar age and aerobic fitness level, despite exhibiting normal acute cardiometabolic responses, according to findings from a pilot study published in Pediatric Diabetes.

During 2018, black and Hispanic children attended diabetes summer camps less frequently than white children, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Approximately half of children and young adults with type 1 diabetes who initiated use of a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system, also known as an artificial pancreas, were still using the device in auto mode after 6 months, with 30% of youths discontinuing use of the system altogether, according to findings from a real-world study published in Pediatric Diabetes.

Young people with type 1 diabetes should be screened for suicidal thoughts, as suicide had been attempted by 16.3% of individuals in a cohort of young people with type 1 diabetes who had such thoughts, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

HbA1c value 3 years after a type 1 diabetes diagnosis is more closely associated with HbA1c at disease onset and not with diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, at presentation, according to findings from a registry-based study published in Pediatric Diabetes.

In the United States, roughly one in five adolescents and one in four young adults have prediabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.