Type 1 Diabetes

Children with type 1 diabetes missed nine more school days, on average, per year than children without the disease, according to new research published in Diabetes Care.

Glycemic control was similar during the day compared with overnight for adults with type 1 diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring, regardless of HbA1c, according to study data.

Researchers hypothesize that the number of youths in the U.S. with diabetes is likely to substantially increase in future decades, highlighting the need for diabetes prevention, according to estimates published in Diabetes Care.

Disordered eating and insulin restriction were associated with a reduced abundance of short-chain fatty acid-producing gut microbes among young adults with type 1 diabetes with overweight or obesity, researchers reported.

For children and young adults with type 1 diabetes, comorbidities such as obesity and asthma increased the risk for COVID-19 hospitalization, according to study results published in Pediatric Diabetes.

The risk for incident type 1 or type 2 diabetes increases after a COVID-19 infection, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental.

The FDA has granted clearance to a next-generation continuous glucose monitoring system for people with all types of diabetes aged 2 years and older, according to a press release.

Treatments for type 1 diabetes must be tailored to the heterogeneity of disease physiology among patients, moving beyond population-based HbA1c measures to individualized glycemic time in targets, according to a speaker.

Bromocriptine, a drug previously used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, improved BP and central and peripheral aortic stiffness over 4 weeks in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, researchers reported.

Clinical and imaging findings of children with type 1 diabetes and obesity were similar to those for children without diabetes with similar degrees of obesity, according study results published in Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.