All items tagged with type 1
Letter: YOUR SHOUT - Making Christmas Easier for Diabetics
<p>AS Christmas decorations go up across the country and people begin to be full of Christmas cheer, some of your readers who have diabetes will realise that Christmas is not as straight forward as they would like it to be. </p>
<p>But for someone with diabetes Christmas is a time of temptation, unpredictable or delayed meals, extra nibbles, excitement and stress, all of which can lead to varying blood sugars. </p>
<p>We know... read more
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Attitude is Key to Living With Diabetes
<p>Nov. 30--Joyce Butts didn't think she would have to deal with diabetes, but for the past 22 years that has been a reality. </p>
<p>Butts learned she has Type 1 diabetes as a result of a non-functioning pancreas unable to supply the insulin her body needs to process glucose. </p>
<p>"Don't think of me as a diabetic," the 65-year-old said.</p>
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Girl's Baby Sister May Hold Hope for Diabetes Cure
<p>Nov. 30--GREENSBORO -- At age 7, Chandler Simpson learned she had Type 1 diabetes. </p>
<p>And at almost the same time, she learned that she was going to have a sibling who might someday help cure the disease. </p>
<p>And that hope rests in part on cells taken from the amniotic fluid, placenta and umbilical cord of her baby sister, Isabelle.</p>
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Portion size then and now
Photos showing portion size we used to eat versus what we are eating now.
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Double-Organ Transplant Ends Woman's Lifelong Battle With Diabetes
<p>Nov. 27--HUDSON -- Nancy Schipper may have had a piece or two of pumpkin pie over the years, but today when she dishes up a slice of the Thanksgiving staple, she'll enjoy it without worry. </p>
<p>Schipper was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, at the age of 7. </p>
<p>"She was a very active little girl," recalls her mother, Marvalene Hendrickson.</p>
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The JDRF Study on Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Today, at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the researchers for the JDRF study group presented their findings, just published on-line in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial is almost certainly to become a landmark study, a carefully done randomly controlled trial (RCT) by the JDRF study group on the usefulness of continuous glucose sensing in a carefully selected population of patients with Type 1 diabetes, all of whom were either... read more
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NBC 6’s Joel Connable Shares Experience With Diabetes, Early Detection
NBC 6’s Joel Connable discuses Diabetes, the disease he shares with some 24 million other Americans, and the importance of diagnosing the disease early. Here’s his story:
Since I was 13 years old, I have been testing my blood sugar and I’ve given myself insulin to stay alive. When I was growing up, diabetes was not a word my family knew. We didn’t have a history in our family and I was a healthy kid.... read more
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A Full and Long Life, Despite Diabetes
Bob Cleveland may be 87 years old, but he still remembers the day he was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes -- in 1925.
"I went to the hospital at five years of age, and I thought to myself, 'OK, I'm going to die.' Because never having been to the hospital before, I just thought that's where you went to die," said Cleveland, of Syracuse, N.Y.
He didn't die. The hospital personnel just... read more
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Ill-Fitting Shoes a Danger to Diabetics
Something as simple as wearing the wrong size of shoes can put diabetics at risk of serious foot problems that could lead to amputation, Scottish researchers say.
The study, by a team at the University of Dundee, included 100 diabetes patients, ages 24 to 89, who had their feet examined and measured while they were sitting and standing.
The researchers found that 63 percent of the patients wore the wrong size of shoes. For... read more
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Treating Depression Cuts Diabetes Death Risk
Treating depression can help extend the lives of people with diabetes, concludes a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study in the December issue of the journal Diabetes Care.
It found that providing depression care management to older adults with diabetes and depression reduced the risk of death over five years by about 50 percent.
"Depression is common among people with diabetes and contributes to issues with medication and diet adherence and also leads... read more
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