Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

Diabetes mellitus type I is an increasing burden for more and younger children. Therapy should avoid long-term complications as macrovascular diseases and diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy and diabetic neuropathy (DN). There is considerable uncertainty about the prevalence of DN due to a lack of large epidemiological studies and consensus on diagnostic criteria. Nerve conduction velocity studies are regarded as the "gold standard" for investigating neuropathies. We plan a prospective study by investigating the peripheral nerve conduction velocity in a population of diabetic children. At the same time-points, we will do a neurological examination using the Young Score, a clinical score of peripheral neuropathy [10]. The results obtained will be related to other long-term vascular complications (nephropathy, retinopathy), glycaemic control, duration of diabetes, insulin dose regime, hours of sports/week, and BMI

The aim of the study is to evaluate the prevalence of abnormal nocturnal blood pressure (BP) in patients with type 1 diabetes. The investigators wish to gain knowledge on the relation between central and peripheral 24 hour BP and a possible association to late complications in diabetes.

Managing patients with type1 diabetes when fasting Ramadan is very challenging. Insulin pump offers the advantage of flexibility and precision to administering insulin and has been proven to reduce severe hypoglycemia compared to multi-dose injection (MDI). However, there are extremely limited studies on the difference between insulin pump compared to MDI on the incidence of hypoglycemia and other acute complications during fasting Ramadan The investigators hypothesized that insulin pump would be associated with less hypoglycemic events during fasting Ramadan compared to MDI without deterioration in glycemic control. Results of this study are descriptive but will fill a current gap in knowledge and may contribute to development of future guidelines for the management of type1DM during Ramadan.

Subjects with type 1 diabetes are invited to provide usual blood glucose monitoring and a blood glucose profile (Pre/ post prandial Blood Glucose + Night Blood Glucose) on 3 occasions in a 2 week time period, in addition to the filling of 5 questionnaires including fear of hypoglycemia-2 questionnaire.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease caused by an immune mediated destruction of the pancreatic β-cells. Once the pancreas has been depleted of a critical mass of β-cells the need for exogenous insulin therapy emerges. Several methods exist to administer insulin. An alternative way to administer insulin is by means of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusions (CSII) or insulin-pump therapy.The frequent execution of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) accomplished by a capillary finger-stick test is essential in the management of diabetes, but this is very limited and also lacks information about rising or falling trends in the actual glycaemia. A solution for this is the use of a Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring (RT-CGM) device. Contrary to SMBG, RT-CGM measures glycaemia 24 hours a day, provides information about glucose direction and rate of change during multiple days a week. Since September 2014, RT-CGM is reimbursed in Belgium for a selected group of type 1 diabetic patients by means of a so-called "CGM convention". The main objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of real time continuous glucose monitoring reimbursement on real-life clinical care parameters of type 1 diabetic patients in Belgium after 12 and 24 months.

Arterial stiffness is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Moreover, the integrity of endothelial glycocalyx plays a vital role in vascular permeability, inflammation and elasticity. The purpose of this study is to investigate changes in arterial stiffness and endothelial glycocalyx thickness in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus type 1 or type 2 after glycemic control by optimal medication.

The purpose of this project is to track initiation and the first year of clinical use of the newly FDA approved 670G closed loop insulin delivery system by patients who have requested this system. Our goal is to evaluate our clinical approach to starting this newly approved system. Since the investigators are only following patients who have already decided to start the 670G, the investigator does not assign specific interventions to the subjects of the study; thus this is a Observational study.

The aim of this study was to look for discriminating variation in the concentrations of small-molecule metabolites in the plasma of T1DM children compared with non-diabetic matched controls using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR)-based metabolomics.

Arterial vascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality for Type 1 diabetic patients (DM1). Metabolic insulin resistance (metIR), even in the absence of hyperglycemia, conveys a 1.5 to 3-fold increased CVD risk in the general population. Metabolic Insulin Resistance (MetIR) has been repeatedly shown to be prevalent in adults and adolescents with DM1. MetIR in obesity and DM2 are accompanied by vascular insulin resistance (vasIR) which is characterized by impaired vasodilatory action of insulin on resistance or microvascular vessels. VasIR has not been systematically studied in DM1. We hypothesize that in young adults DM1 impairs both baseline and insulin-responsive vascular function throughout the arterial vasculature.

This study is directed to evaluate the role of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) in the evaluation of the perifoveal vascular network in type 1 diabetic patients, and to investigate the relationship between OCT-A-derived parameters and demographic and clinical factors, as metabolic control and duration of the disease.