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Four out of ten

10-03-2023 | Type 1 diabetes | News

Four in 10 US adults with type 1 diabetes diagnosed after 30 years of age

Type 1 diabetes onset may be more common during adulthood than previously thought, which could increase the risk for it being misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes.

01-26-2023 | Screening | News

Age 10 years is optimal type 1 diabetes screening point for adolescents

“Almost no one” who is islet autoantibody negative at age 10 years despite a high familial risk for type 1 diabetes will develop clinical diabetes by the age of 18, report researchers.

10-06-2022 | COVID-19 | News

Pandemic ‘exacerbated’ existing trends in ketoacidosis at diabetes diagnosis

Analysis of childhood type 1 diabetes diagnoses across 13 countries indicates that the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic worsened pre-existing increasing trends in ketoacidosis at diagnosis.

09-22-2022 | EASD 2022 | Conference coverage | News

Support for tailored genetic counseling in people with incidentally discovered MODY mutations

Mutations in HNF1A and HNF4A are less likely to be associated with a diagnosis of maturity-onset diabetes of the young when discovered incidentally versus in a clinically selected cohort, research suggests.

Close up of a pregnant woman measuring blood sugar level

08-17-2022 | Gestational diabetes | News

Pros and cons with lower vs higher threshold for gestational diabetes diagnosis

Using the lower IADPSG glycemic criteria rather than the HAPO criteria diagnoses more women with gestational diabetes but does not result in fewer babies being born large for gestational age, shows a randomized trial.

08-02-2022 | COVID-19 | News

Increased short-term type 1 diabetes risk post-COVID unlikely to be due to infection

Testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 is associated with an increased risk for incident type 1 diabetes, but this is restricted to the first 30 days post-infection and may be explained by increased testing frequency around the time of diabetes diagnosis, researchers report.

08-01-2022 | Diagnosis | News

‘Major improvements’ in diabetes detection in USA

The number of people with undiagnosed diabetes in the USA has fallen in the past 3 decades, indicates research published in Diabetes Care.

Blood test

07-08-2022 | Screening | News

Two early childhood autoantibody screenings predict most type 1 diabetes cases

Testing high-risk children for islet autoantibodies twice, at the ages of 2 and 6 years, is sufficient to predict the majority of clinical cases of type 1 diabetes diagnosed by the age of 15, a study suggests.