Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

This clinical trial is a feasibility study to assess the performance of an Artificial Pancreas (AP) device using the Artificial Pancreas System (APS©) platform for subjects with type 1 diabetes. The device is a closed-loop between a DexCom™ SEVEN® PLUS (DexCom™ Corp, San Diego, CA) continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and a OneTouch® Ping® Glucose Monitoring System (Animas Corp, Westchester, PA) subcutaneous insulin delivery pump (CSII). The AP device is controlled by a zone-Model Predictive Control (zone-MPC) algorithm augmented by a safety algorithm named the Health Monitoring System (HMS). The clinical study will include 12 to 20 adults subjects aged 21 to 65 years old.

In Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States, there are an estimated 8,000 children under the age of 21 with type 1 diabetes. Although provisions for pediatric care exist, once these children become young adults they age out of their health care services. There is no formal transitional care program to help these individuals through this process of changing health plans and many end up without adequate care. This project aims to develop and implement a transition care program for young adults with type 1 diabetes in order to ensure uninterrupted transition from pediatric to adult diabetes health care and improve health and psychological outcomes.

Primary Objective: To assess the tolerability and safety of SAR438544 after single ascending subcutaneous (SC) doses in healthy subjects and in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients. Secondary Objective: To assess the preliminary pharmacodynamics (PD) and pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of SAR438544 after single ascending SC doses in healthy subjects and in T1DM patients.

This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of this trial is to compare Injections with the Medical Device DV3316 Pen-injector versus FlexPen®.

This study will be conducted in participants with type 1 diabetes mellitus to investigate how the human body processes LY900014, a new blood sugar lowering insulin, and its effect on blood sugar levels when it is delivered via an insulin pump. Side effects and tolerability will be documented. The study will last about 4 to 11 weeks for each participant.

The suggested clinical trial is part of the KidsAP project funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The project evaluates the use of the Artificial Pancreas (or closed loop systems) in very young children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) aged 1 to 7 years. The suggested trial is a feasibility study to pilot the setup of a large-scale outcome trial and to address the specific needs of this population. The results of the pilot trial will feed into the design of the outcome study. In this study the investigators will compare closed loop insulin delivery using standard strength insulin to closed loop use with diluted insulin in very young children with T1D. Diluted insulin is a standard treatment approach for children with low insulin requirements. The investigators hypothesize that diluted insulin will lead to more stable glucose levels by reducing inaccuracies accentuated by delivery of minute amounts of insulin (frequently less than 0.1U/h [1μl/h with standard strength insulin] in small children compared to 1U/h in adults). These inaccuracies may result from pump plunger micro-jumps, tissues pressure build-up, and infusion set kinking. This study builds on previous and on-going studies of closed loop systems that have been performed in Cambridge in children and adolescents with T1D in clinical research facilities and in the home setting. The study adopts an open-label, multi-centre, multinational, randomised, two-period crossover design contrasting closed loop glucose control using diluted insulin and closed loop using standard insulin strength under free-living home conditions. The two intervention periods will last 3 weeks each with a 1 to 4 weeks washout period in between. The order of the two interventions will be random. A total of up to 30 young children aged 1 to 7 years with T1D on insulin pump therapy will be recruited through outpatient diabetes clinics at participating clinical centres to allow for 24 completed subjects available for assessment in each of the study arms. Prior to the use of study devices, participants and parents/guardians will receive appropriate training by the research team on the safe use of the study pump and continuous glucose monitoring system, and the hybrid closed loop insulin delivery system. Carers at nursery or school may also receive training by the study team if required. During the intervention periods, subjects and parents/guardians will use the closed loop system for 21 days under free-living conditions in their home and nursery/school environment without remote monitoring or supervision by research staff. The primary outcome is time spent in target range between 3.9 and 10.0 mmol/l as recorded by CGM. Secondary outcomes are the time spent with glucose levels above and below target, as recorded by CGM, and other CGM-based metrics. Safety evaluation comprises the tabulation of severe hypoglycaemic episodes.

This clinical study has been launched to compare the performances of two models of a non-invasive glucose monitoring device.

At the conclusion of this project, investigators will have assessed the effectiveness of home-based telemedicine for improving multiple important clinical and patient-centered outcomes in a high-risk pediatric cohort with T1D. Aim 1. To test the hypothesis that home-based telemedicine is a feasible and acceptable method of care delivery for patients with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes (T1D) currently cared for at the University of California, Davis (UCD) Pediatric Endocrinology clinic. Specifically: A) Patients and families choose to participate in telemedicine visits as a supplement to in-person care; B) Patients and families can utilize secure, internet-based platforms to upload and share glucose meter data and to establish an audio-video connection with a diabetes specialist in their home settings; C) Patients and families are satisfied with the experience of home-based telemedicine and would choose to receive future diabetes care via this modality. Aim 2. To test the hypothesis that using home-based telemedicine, these patients can complete more frequent visits with a diabetes specialist than they previously completed via office visits alone. Aim 3. To test the hypothesis that increased contact with a diabetes specialist via home-based telemedicine will lead to significant improvement in glycemic control for these patients. Aim 4. To evaluate the effects of increased contact with a diabetes specialist via home-based telemedicine on high-cost health care utilization - specifically emergency department (ED) visits and diabetes-related hospitalizations.

The first 2 years of this project consisted of user-centered design and development of an online resource designed by and for parents of very young children with type 1 diabetes (under 6 years old). That phase of the work has been completed and recruitment has begun for the second phase, which is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of use of this resource on a variety of pertinent child and parent outcomes. INTERESTED, ELIGIBLE PARENTS OR GUARDIANS CAN LEARN MORE BY NAVIGATING TO: www.bit.ly/youngT1D

Adult Muslims are obliged to start fasting during the month of Ramadan. Fasting entails refraining from all food, drink, tablets and injections(vitamins & fluids) between sunrise and sunset; a period which varies by geographical location and season. People with type 1 Diabetes are among those who are risky to fast this holy month in the Muslim faith and thus are exempted from fasting. Yet many patients fast in spite of medical advice and religious exemption and for those patients, healthcare professionals should provide the utmost care and continuous diabetes education. Different diabetes education modalities exist like DSME (Diabetes self-management education with proven efficacy. One modality is the Diabetes Conversation Map which delivers diabetes education interactively through a series of maps that address different issues in diabetes management and includes a specially designed Ramadan map. In this study, two modalities of Diabetes focused Ramadan education will be compared regarding aiding patients to fast Ramadan safely. One modality will be Diabetes conversation maps and the other the International Diabetes Federation Education modules.