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Vitamin D Deficiency May Contribute to Diabetic Retinopathy in Children and Adolescents

A new study has found vitamin D deficiency to be associated with retinopathy in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The study, published online ahead of print in Diabetes Care, set out to examine the hypothesis that vitamin D deficiency...

Adolescent BMI May Predict Diabetes and Heart Disease In Adulthood

A new study out of Be'er Sheva University, Israel, has found that adolescent's body mass index (BMI) can predict early occurrences of diabetes and heart disease in adulthood. The large cohort study which followed 37,000 teenagers for 17 years found...

The Conundrum of Control

Diabetic or not, no one is an expert about your life except you...

Levemir Better for Treating Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes Than Human Basal Insulin

New clinical trial data just published in Pediatric Diabetes shows that Levemir (insulin detemir), Novo Nordisk’s basal insulin analogue, is an equally efficacious treatment option for two to five year-old children with type 1 diabetes, compared with human basal insulin, but is associated with lower hypoglycemic risk. Children with type 1 diabetes who are aged under six years...

Tiger Mother Approach For a Child With Type 1 Diabetes?

What would Amy Chua, author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, do if one of her daughters had type 1 diabetes?

Surviving the Diagnosis

A nurse tested Nate's blood glucose level, turned around, and walked out without a word. When the doctor came back in, I wanted to run away...

Novo Nordisk’s New Insulin Pen for Children Wins GOOD DESIGN Award

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies have chosen to award Novo Nordisk a 2010 GOOD DESIGN™ Awardfor the NovoPen Echo, a new insulin pen designed specifically with the needs of children in mind...

Genetic Testing To Predict Diabetes: Yes or No?

Fruity-smelling breath can be a sign of diabetic ketoacidosis. It can, of course, also be a sign of having eaten fruit...

Type 2 Diabetes May Affect Children’s Brains

According to a new study published online in Diabetologia, obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may experience changes in their brains that affect how well they are learning in school. Cognitive and brain impairments, have been documented in adults with type 2 diabetes...

Moving Minds Toward a Cure: The Pediatric Diabetes Research Center

The PDRC is a new state-of-the-art diabetes research and clinical center under the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego...