Type 1 Diabetes

Adults with diabetes may be more likely to be out sick from work for long periods or be unemployed vs. those without diabetes, according to findings from a Danish registry study published in Diabetic Medicine.

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.

When adults with type 1 diabetes use an intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitor, they do not have to sacrifice quality of life to experience benefits, such as fewer hypoglycemia episodes and hospital visits, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Adults with diabetes and depressive disorder treated with antidepressant drugs experienced fewer episodes of hyperglycemic crisis than those not taking antidepressant medications, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.

The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to an investigational bionic pancreas system, according to a press release from Beta Bionics.

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Adults with type 1 diabetes may be more likely to develop macrovascular complications, albuminuria and calcified aortic valve disease if they have elevated measures of lipoprotein(a), according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

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.

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop in individuals who were born preterm vs. those born at full term, according to findings published in Diabetologia.