Type 1 Diabetes

Transitioning from pediatric to adult diabetes care is associated with a prolonged gap in care for teens and young adults who do not see a diabetes educator or use a continuous glucose monitor, according to a speaker.

An FDA advisory panel voted 10-7 in favor of recommending approval of teplizumab to delay development of type 1 diabetes in high-risk children and adults, with most committee members expressing some concerns about trial size and safety.

Women diagnosed with gestational diabetes are more likely to be autoantibody positive and develop type 1 diabetes in the decade after delivery compared with pregnant women without gestational diabetes, data from a large Finnish cohort show.

The Loop open-source system for a do-it-yourself automated insulin delivery system can be initiated with community-developed resources and used safely and effectively by adults and children with type 1 diabetes, real-world data show.

Ethnicity was not associated with celiac disease screening in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.

The proportion of telemedicine visits at diabetes clinics in the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative increased dramatically from less than 1% before the COVID-19 pandemic to about 95% in April 2020, according to study data.

Parents of children with type 1 diabetes who initiated continuous glucose monitoring during the first month after diagnosis described CGM as beneficial and said they would continue to use it, according to study data.

Most children with type 1 diabetes who test positive for COVID-19 do not require hospitalization, although most hospitalized children had diabetic ketoacidosis at admission, according to study findings.

“My patients, my heroes” is a special series in my blog that I dedicate to my patients, first launched in May 2020.

A lack of shared decision-making between providers and patients can contribute to racial-ethnic inequity in use of diabetes technology for Black and Hispanic young adults with type 1 diabetes, according to study data.