A recent study found that nearly ⅓ of the world’s population is overweight, so it should come as no surprise that some people with Type 1 diabetes might have trouble maintaining a healthy weight. However, people with Type 1 diabetes also have an added issue in that they depend on insulin, which is an anabolic […]
We are the parents of a French 10 year old girl, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a year ago. After the first shock, we learned a lot about how to adapt insulin to life and not life to insulin. We wanted to avoid the meal-planning method that involves keeping the total carbohydrate intake at each […]
A roundup on continuous glucose monitor, basal insulin and novel drugs.
Proponents argue that modern human populations subsisting on traditional diets, allegedly similar to those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, are largely free of diseases of affluence and that Paleolithic diets in humans have shown improved health outcomes relative to other widely recommended diets.
A serious complication of type 1 diabetes called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) can cause temporary changes to the brain matter of children newly diagnosed with the disease, researchers say.
At Insulin Nation, we’ve examined 5 of the most popular diets out there and asked Certified Diabetes Educators and Registered Dietitians to give us their take on what fits for T1 and what doesn’t.
New experiments on mice show that mouse mothers can protect their pups from developing type 1 diabetes by eating a gluten-free diet. According to preliminary studies by researchers, the findings may apply to humans.
Data from the independent investigator-initiated HypoAna study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, shows that Novo Nordisk’s short-acting and long-acting modern insulin analogues NovoRapid® (insulin aspart) and Levemir® (insulin detemir) significantly reduce severe hypoglycaemia in people with type 1 diabetes compared to human insulin (regular/NPH).
Researchers in Germany have further endorsed the effectiveness of a blood test that helps determine whether some adult diabetics diagnosed as type 2 diabetes are actually in the early stages of having type 1 diabetes.
The prevalence of Type 1 diabetes increased 21 percent among children up to age 19, the study found. The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes among those ages 10 to 19 rose 30 percent during the period.
Hospitals are supposed to be places to heal, but they can also become hotbeds of infection if proper rules of hygiene aren’t being followed. Unfortunately, insulin-dependent people with diabetes are some of the most at risk of danger when these rules break down.
If you are one of the majority of people with diabetes without a formal care plan in place, consider talking with your doctor about creating one right away. In an ideal world, every physician would ask T1 patients about a plan, but in reality it’s going to be up to patients to take the initiative.
Eighth grader Amelia Cooper and her father Blake recently stopped by the diaTribe office in San Francisco for her middle school career day. After publishing our learning curve last month on tips for patients newly diagnosed people with type 1 diabetes, we wondered what Amelia wished she had said to her parents, friends, and the […]
Have you ever asked yourself, “How did I get type 1 diabetes?”. 23andMe is a privately held personal genomics and biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California that provides rapid genetic testing. This compay may be able to offer a non-conclusive answer to this question.
For those of you out of the loop, “brittle” is an old-fashioned word for diabetes that’s almost impossible to control despite the best efforts. Nowadays, medical pros prefer to blame the patient when things go wrong, rather than accept the possibility there might be a flavor of diabetes that can’t be controlled
We’ve come a long way since the eighties, when shame was a big part of diabetes management. My doctors now carefully avoid pejorative language when we discuss my A1c, but I still feel the same waves of anxiety and shame regardless. Though I try, I can’t seem to shake my anxiety.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental drug to treat diabetes reduced the use of insulin at meal times in a mid-stage study of patients with type 1 diabetes, sending the company’s shares up as much as 17 percent.
Nothing is perfect. That can certainly be said for the comprehensive front-health-page article the New York Times ran this Saturday, April 5, on the high cost of new type 1 diabetes tools.
T1DM patients were significantly more often chronically fatigued (40%; 95% CI 34–47%) compared with matched controls (7%; 95% CI 3–10%; P < 0.001). Its significant relationship with cognitive behavioral variables and weak association with blood glucose levels suggests that behavioral interventions could be helpful in managing chronic fatigue in T1DM.
While many people with T1 are comfortable talking about their A1C, few are as open to discussing how diabetes affects their sex lives. People with diabetes should be talking to their endocrinologists regularly about their sexual health, but the subject rarely comes up.