For the First Time, Study Identifies Time Trends in Pregnancy-Related Outcomes Among American Women with Type 1 Diabetes

Largest US database of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes provides a first-time, big picture view of mother’s health, and neonatal and delivery outcomes. The analysis found a threefold increase in insulin pump use at the end of the study...
1-Jul-2020 10:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Promising treatment to slow kidney disease doesn’t prove out in clinical trial

Historically, half or more of people with type 1 diabetes develop kidney disease, which frequently progresses to kidney failure requiring hemodialysis or a kidney transplant for survival. Progression of kidney disease in type 1 diabetes is...
25-Jun-2020 2:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Effect of Continuous Glucose Monitoring on Hypoglycemia in Older Adults With Type 1 Diabetes

Fewer than one in five adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes are successful in achieving the recommended 2019 A1C goal of below 7.5%, and the overwhelming majority fail to achieve the 2020 target of less than 7%. But young people who use...
16-Jun-2020 2:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Small rises in blood glucose trigger big changes in insulin-producing cells

This study provides a wealth of new data showing how beta cells behave at slightly raised levels of blood glucose - still within the pre-diabetes range. The work provides major additional evidence of a “glucose toxicity” effect that helps to...
6-May-2020 1:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Identify Potential Early Biomarker to Track Development of Dangerous Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Fatty liver disease not associated with alcohol consumption, which is called Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease or NAFLD, affects more than one billion people worldwide. Even in children the numbers are overwhelming, with up to 80 percent of...
6-Apr-2020 5:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Joslin Research Ties Autoimmunity-Associated Heart Dilation to Potential Heart-Failure Risk in Type 1 Diabetes

There's a higher case fatality rate in type 1 than type 2 diabetes, which suggests different mechanisms for heart failure might be involved in type 1 diabetes.” Given the burden of heart failure in type 1 diabetes, the early identification of...
6-Apr-2020 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Brown Fat Can Burn Energy in an Unexpected Way

Joslin researchers have found a pathway that can boost the production of (heat-generating, fat-burning) brown fat cells without also creating unhelpful white fat cells. This finding suggests that the pathway the Joslin team uncovered might offer a...
6-Apr-2020 11:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

For the evaluation and treatment of diabetic eye disease, ultra-wide field imaging techniques cannot be used interchangeably

Diabetic retinopathy can be diagnosed and graded with the use of a newer scanning technology called ultra-wide field (UWF) imaging, a system that generates high-quality pictures showing most of the retina. Research from the Joslin Diabetes...
5-Mar-2020 3:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

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