Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

A frequent complication in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children with type 1 diabetes is rebound hyperglycemia (blood glucose over 180 mg/dL) which increases the risk of re-developing DKA and can lengthen the hospital stay. The investigators want to study whether giving the long-acting insulin glargine (Lantus®) early in DKA management (versus after complete resolution of the DKA) helps prevent rebound hyperglycemia and makes the transition to insulin injections easier. Participants will also have the option to wear a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) during the study to help us understand blood glucose control during and after DKA.

The purpose of this pilot study is to establish that closed-loop insulin delivery with a target enchanted model predictive control (eMPC)/Health Monitoring System (HMS) algorithms with a trust index of the predicted glucose value is safe and effective, to analyze and learn to improve upon the accuracy of the predicted glucose values, and to collect efficacy data to inform a future larger study.

Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) depend on insulin therapy as substitution for the lack of endocrine insulin production due to an autoimmune destruction of beta-cells in the pancreatic inslets. Insulin therapy is based on long lasting basal insulin for controlling fasting plasma glucose, and short lasting mealtime insulin for the postprandial plasma glucose. The long term efficacy of this treatment is measured in glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) of <7.0% as the treatment goal. Intensive insulin therapy is associated with side effects such as hypoglycaemia, weight gain, and unwanted exaggerated excursions in PPG. This may ultimately affect treatment compliance. The abovementioned problems associated with insulin treatment in T1D can also be seen in insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, in T2D the combination of insulin with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (RA) has proven effective in reducing the weight gain and insulin dose in insulin-treated patients with T2D without exacerbating the risk of hypoglycaemia. Exenatid is a short lasting GLP-1RA approved for treatment in T2D, and the investigators intend to evaluate it in a randomized, controlled trial as add-on therapy to standard insulin therapy for patients with T1D. The investigators hypothesise that the add-on of exenatide to insulin therapy in patients with T1D will reduce insulin requirements, glycaemic excursions and body weight and improve glycaemic control without increasing the risk of hypoglycaemia.

The purpose of this pilot project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioral economic intervention to increase use of continuous glucose monitors (CGM) in adolescents and young adults with T1D. This study will be done in conjunction with Nancy Petry, PhD and her research team at University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn Health). The intervention will reinforce patients for wearing CGM and for uploading it and reviewing its data. A 6-month pilot trial will be conducted with up to 20 patients receiving the intervention. The specific aims are:

The purpose is to perform an early investigation on the safety and performance of an Automated Glucose Control (AGC) algorithm using the OmniPod® Insulin Management System and gather clinical data that will be used to make improvements or modifications to the algorithm for subsequent studies in adults, adolescents and children with type 1 diabetes.

The main study objective is to determine whether 24/7 automated closed-loop glucose control combined with low glucose feature will improve glucose control as measured by HbA1c. This is an open-label, multi-centre, multi-national, single-period, randomised, parallel group design study, involving a 6 month period of home study during which day and night glucose levels will be controlled either by a closed-loop system combined with low glucose feature (intervention group) or by insulin pump therapy alone (control group). It is expected that a total of up to 150 subjects (aiming for 130 randomised subjects) with type 1 diabetes will be recruited through paediatric outpatient diabetes clinics of the investigation centres. Participants will all be on subcutaneous insulin pump therapy. Subjects in the intervention group will have proven competencies both in the use of the study insulin pump and the study continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, and will receive appropriate training in the safe use of closed-loop insulin delivery system and low glucose feature. All subjects will have regular contact with the study team during the home study phase including 24/7 telephone support. The primary outcome is between group differences in HbA1c levels at 6 months post study arm initiation. Secondary outcomes are the time spent in the glucose target (3.9 to 10.0mmol/l; 70 to 180mg/dl), time spent with glucose levels above and below target, as recorded by CGM, and other CGM-based metrics. Safety evaluation comprises assessment of the frequency of severe hypoglycaemic episodes and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Despite current treatments for type 1 diabetes, maintaining blood glucose levels within a good range is a difficult task. A primary source for poor glucose control in adolescents is skipping insulin boluses at mealtimes. Advances in glucose sensors have motivated the research towards closed-loop delivery systems to automatically regulate glucose levels. Closed-loop delivery (artificial pancreas) is composed of an insulin pump, a continuous glucose sensor and a dosing algorithm that calculates the insulin dose to infuse based on sensor readings. The performance of a closed-loop delivery after a missed bolus may be improved if the computer program that calculates the insulin is enhanced with a meal detection module. The meal detection module will automatically detect the meal (which had no bolus delivered), and signal the delivery of more insulin. The aim of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of a closed-loop delivery with and without meal detection module compared to conventional pump therapy in regulating post-prandial glycemic levels after omission of a meal bolus. The primary hypothesis is that closed-loop delivery with no meal detection module will reduce the mean increase in postprandial glucose levels after a missed bolus compared to conventional pump therapy.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Bionic Pancreas with ZP4207 (dasiglucagon*) was feasible to improve glycemic control in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus. *dasiglucagon is the proposed International Nonproprietary Name (pINN) for ZP4207

The study will be conducted in crossover trial, with two 12-weeks periods separated by a Wash-out period of at least one month. According to randomization ,patients will be provided with either Diabeloop system or the usual system. Patients will be trained for the use of blood glucose meter, of external Insulin Pump and Diabeloop system. In both treatment periods, the same blood glucose meter will be used throughout the duration of the study. In two centers (Centre Hospitalier Sud-Francilien and Grenoble), a pre-study will be performed during four weeks to improve the efficacy of Diabeloop system with data collection, to test the manual settings by health care providers and patients and to check the good-working of the follow-up platform.

One of the challenges in the design of the artificial pancreas (AP) is preventing postprandial hyperglycemia. Beyond algorithmic solutions, one countermeasure to postprandial hyperglycemia that may enhance performance of the AP is the use of adjunctive-to-insulin medications such as those in the Sodium Glucose-Linked Transporter 2 inhibitor class. This study evaluates whether use of oral empagliflozin on the background of single-hormone AP can improve postprandial blood glucose control. The investigators will test this hypothesis in a cross-over trial design by comparing open-label empagliflozin versus placebo in the setting of AP on separate study days that involve carbohydrate counting, simple meal announcement and no meal announcement strategies.