NHS England says the mass rollout of the artificial pancreas builds on a successful pilot of the technology, which saw 835 adults and children given devices to improve the management of their condition.Tuesday 2 April 2024 09:17, UK Diabetes Health ...
NHS commissioning frameworks and policies are preventing patients in England with type 1 diabetes from getting the care that they need from specialist services, the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists has warned. As a result, many patients with type 1 diabetes are being treated in ...
An in-depth knowledge of type 1 diabetes pathogenesis is critical to understanding how precision medicine may apply to type 1 diabetes. In the early 1930s it was noticed that people with diabetes responded differently to insulin, enabling the differentiation between insulin-insufficient and insulin-se...
The rising prevalence of childhood obesity has been postulated as an explanation for the increasing rate of individuals diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D). In this study, we use Mendelian randomization (MR) to provide evidence that childhood body size has an effect on T1D risk (OR = ...
The artificial pancreas (closed-loop system) addresses the unmet clinical need for improved glucose control whilst reducing the burden of diabetes self-car
Many children with type 1 diabetes have poor glycaemic control. Since the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) showed that tighter control reduces complication rates, there has been more emphasis on intensified insulin therapy. We know that pa
According to NHS (2014), „A recent study has estimated that 35.3% of adults in the UK now have pre-diabetes (also known as borderline diabetes).” A country with one of the highest prevalences of diabetes is also America: „One in four Americans has either pre-diabetes or the full...
The world's first licensed, downloadable artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes launches today, based on over a decade of research by Professor Roman Hovorka at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundatio
potential to transform the lives of thousands of patients across the UK living with Type 1 diabetes. Thanks to our strong economy we invest over £1 billion every year in health research, helping us to lead the world in medical innovation and give NHS patients the latest cutting-edge ...
In the study presented at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2022, the University of Exeter team assessed psychological resilience in the StartRight study, funded by the charity Diabetes UK, and the NHS National Institute of Health Research, made up of more than 1,800 people newly diagnosed ...