Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

This trial is conducted in the United States of America (USA). The aim of this trial is to compare the efficacy of insulin decludec with insulin glargine on glycaemic control using continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 diabetes.

The overall objective of this pilot project is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the gastric submucosal space as a novel site for clinical islet transplantation. The site has several physiologic attributes that may improve the outcomes of islet transplantation compared with the conventional intraportal transplant site.

The study involves a single injection of LY2963016 and a single injection of Lantus, on 2 separate occasions in participants with type I diabetes. Following each dose, participants will undergo a glucose clamp which lasts for 42 hours each time. There will be at least 7 days between the two periods, during which time there will be no study treatment, but participants will resume their regular therapy. The duration of this study can be up to 9.5 weeks. The purposes of this study are to understand how the blood sugar lowering effect of LY2963016 compares to that of Lantus, and to determine how LY2963016 and Lantus are metabolized by participants with type I diabetes.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety of short-term (6 month) low or very-low carbohydrate diets in prepubertal children 2 to <12 years old with type 1 diabetes. Participants will be randomized to either low carbohydrate diet (carbohydrate makes up 30-39% of total daily calories) or very-low carbohydrate diet (carbohydrates are 20-29% of total daily calories). The investigators will evaluate metabolic effects of these diets by measuring the counter-regulatory hormone response to hypoglycemia at baseline and again at 3 months. Other outcomes include diabetes control as measured by HbA1c, growth and weight gain, lipid profiles, and body composition.

The iLet™ is a new insulin pump that is programmed to work with a Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) device. This is to give participants insulin automatically. The CGM device is already available for sale. The iLet™ is not yet approved for use. Fast-acting insulin aspart is a type of insulin that doctors can already prescribe for use with insulin pens, but not for use in an insulin pump. This study is to test how safe fast acting insulin aspart is when used with different insulin delivery settings in the iLet™ in people with type 1 diabetes. Participants will get fast-acting insulin aspart as participants' insulin and use the iLet™ as participants' insulin pump with a CGM device. Participants' iLet™ will be set to 2 different insulin delivery settings for 7 days on each setting. The setting participants get first is decided by chance. The study will last for about 5 to 9 weeks. Participants will have 4 visits and 1 phone contact with the study or staff.

FreeStyle Libre (FSL2) is a novel glucose monitoring device (Flash glucose monitoring) in the form of a disc worn on the arm for 14 days, and a hand-held reader which is designed to largely replace the recommended 4-10 painful finger-stick blood glucose tests required each day for the self-management of type 1 diabetes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether flash glucose monitoring with FSL2 device will improve HbA1c over 24 weeks compared to self-monitoring of blood glucose in adults and adolescents (16 or older) with sub-optimally controlled (HbA1c 7.5% to 11%) type 1 diabetes. This is an open-label, multi-centre, randomised, parallel design study, involving a 2-week run-in period, followed by a 24-week study period during which participants will use either FSL2 or continue usual finger-stick glucose monitoring in random order. A total of up to 156 randomised participants from up to 180 recruited aged 16 years and older with T1D on insulin pump therapy or multiple daily injection therapy were recruited through diabetes clinics in participating centres. Participants will receive appropriate training to maximise the benefits of FSL2 and finger-stick glucose levels in self-management. The primary outcome is the difference in HbA1c between the two groups at 24 weeks. Secondary outcomes are time spent with glucose levels above and below target, as recorded by FSL2, and other flash glucose-based metrics. Impact on quality of life, diabetes distress, mood, needle burden, disordered eating and treatment satisfaction will also be undertaken. Relative cost-effectiveness of FSL2 device compared with self-monitoring will also be assessed from a UK NHS perspective.

The study is comparing the new medicine NNC9204-1513 with a standard therapy of glucagon (GlucaGen®). This is the first time NNC9204-1513 is given to humans. Participants will either receive NNC9204-1513 or GlucaGen® - which treatment you get is decided by chance (like flipping a coin). Neither the participant nor the study doctor will know which study medicine (NNC9204-1513 or GlucaGen®) the participant is receiving (double -blinding). In case of emergency, this information will be readily available. NNC9204-1513 is a new medicine for rescue treatment of severe low blood sugar and currently not available on the market (doctors cannot prescribe this medicine). The participant will receive two or three single injections below the skin. One injection will contain NNC9204-1513 or GlucaGen®. The other injection will include placebo - this is a product that looks like the actual study drug but without any active ingredients. If a third injection is given, this will contain NNC9204-1513 or placebo. NNC9204-1513 and GlucaGen® will be given using different devices and volumes. In order to mask these external differences, a "double dummy" approach will be used, that means when you get either of the study medicine (NNC9204-1513 or GlucaGen®) you will get another injection which contains no medicine called 'placebo' (it will not have any effect on the body). Dependent on the injection volume to be administered, injections are given by either syringe with needle or an injection pen (NovoPen Echo®). The study will last for up to 39 days.

According to guidelines, when a mild-to-moderate hypoglycemia occurs (capillary blood glucose < 4.0 mmol/L), 15-20g of rapidly absorbed carbohydrates should be ingested. Patients should re-test and re-ingest 15-20g carbohydrates every 15 minutes until they recover from hypoglycemia. These recommendations were principally based on two studies conducted in the 80s before the introduction of intensive insulin therapy secondary to the DCCT trial and with insulin formulations with largely different pharmacokinetic profiles from current insulin analogs. Recent studies suggest that with current insulin analogs and intensive therapeutic approach, 15g of carbohydrates may be insufficient to rapidly correct an important proportion of hypoglycemic episodes. It is thus important to determine if the recommended hypoglycemia treatment remains the recommendation.

Carnosine, a naturally-occurring dipeptide (β-alanyl-L-histidine) first described in 1900 by Gulewitsch and Amiradzibi, is found predominantly in post-mitotic tissues (e.g. brain and innervated muscle) of vertebrates . Carnosine is claimed to decrease oxygen free-radical mediated damage to cellular macromolecules either by chelating divalent cations or scavenging hydroxy radicals with its imidazole moiety. Free-radical damage is not the only process to affect the structure of proteins and nucleic acids. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study assessed the role of carnosine in diabetes associated complications in particular diabetic nephropathy and there is insufficient evidence to recommend its supplementation in those patients. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate the role of carnosine as an adjuvant therapy for diabetic nephropathy in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and assess its relation to microalbuminuria, tubulointerstitial damage marker, glycemic control and oxidative stress.

A single center pilot study assessing the Vigilant Diabetes Management Companion for the prevention of recurrent nocturnal hypoglycemia in type I diabetes patients.