Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus"

This is a prospective cohort study that takes place in a clinic of Hangzhou, China. The aim of this study is to explore the molecular mechanism of special Chinese medicine formula combined with personalized nutrition to assist the treatment of diabetes from the aspect of multi-omics view. This study also aims to explore the relationship between gut microbiome and blood glucose in the process of personalized diet intervention.

Prediabetes is a common condition in overweight individuals affecting approximately 35% of American adults and 30% of Australian adults. Like diabetes, prediabetes is a serious risk factor for cardiovascular disease, eye, kidney and liver disease, and some types of cancer. Appropriate blood glucose control is crucial in preventing pre-diabetes complications and onset of diabetes, yet clinical practice, backed by randomised trials, reports that many patients treated with standard dietary guidelines or with the first-line treatment of diabetes patients, metformin, do not improve blood glucose control sufficiently. The overarching goal of the present project is to improve the efficacy of metformin mono-therapy in pre-diabetes and early type 2 diabetes.

This is a community-based cluster randomized control trial aimed to investigate the impact of lifestyle modification (diet, physical activity, alcohol drinking and smoking) on the development of dementia, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease in an intermediate risk population in mixed urban-rural areas of Ubon Ratchathani.

Cicletanine, which has been approved and launched for hypertension in France and Germany, has promise beyond hypertension in critically-unmet needs such as diabetes. It is evident from in vitro, animal and human studies that cicletanine's optimal dose in diabetes and other challenging, critically-unmet needs is likely to be higher than that for hypertension. Cicletanine's maximum tolerated dosage is not known, but the drug's dose-limiting effects are documented to be potassium loss and sodium loss from thiazide-type activity (one of the therapeutic mechanisms the drug is known to have); such thiazide-type losses are known to be reversed safely by magnesium. This trial explores the ability of magnesium to enhance cicletanine safety at higher doses in a trial involving patients with hypertension complicated by diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas by the body's own immune system (autoimmunity). It is not fully understood what causes this type of diabetes and why there is variation in age of onset and severity between people who develop the disease. The aim of this work is to study very unusual people who develop T1D extremely young, as babies under 2 years of age (EET1D). The investigators think that, for the condition to have developed that early, they must have an unusual or extreme form of autoimmunity. Studying people with EET1D will enable us to look at exactly what goes wrong with the immune system because they have one of the most extreme forms of the disease. We may be able to learn a lot about the disease from a small number of rare individuals. We aim to confirm that they have autoimmune type 1 diabetes and then try to understand how they have developed diabetes so young by studying their immune system genes, the function of their immune system, and environmental factors (such as maternal genetics) that may play a role in their development of the disease. People with diabetes diagnosed under 12 months are very rare, live all over the world. and are usually referred to Exeter for genetic testing. As part of their wider clinical team, we will contact them via their clinician to ask for more information about their diabetes and their family history. We will collect samples to study whether they still make any of their own insulin and whether they make specific antibodies against their beta cells in the pancreas. Separately, we will study their immune system in depth using immune cells isolated from a blood sample. We will then study these cells using cutting edge techniques by Dr Tim Tree at King's College London, by Professor Bart Roep at the Diabetes Metabolism Research Institute Faculty, City of Hope National Medical Center, California (USA), and Dr Cate Speake, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle (USA). Some of these tests have never been used in people of young ages around the world, so an aim of this project will be to develop methods that can be used to study people even if they live far away. Additional funding extends the study for a further 3 years (Phase 2) to include recruitment of infants without diabetes, aged 0-6 years, as controls to enable assessment of how the abnormalities found in autoimmune and non-autoimmune diabetes compare to normal early life development of the immune system.

The improvement of imaging techniques in ophthalmology has made it possible to carry out a precise non-invasive study of the retinal microvascular network and to detect early abnormalities in retinal disorders. The presence of such early retinal abnormalities remains poorly known during type 1 diabetes and may be detected with OCT-angiography. Furthermore, the association with glycemic variability, likely to have deleterious effects on microvessels, has never been studied.

The weight reduction obtained after a first bariatric surgery would improve the vascular (correction of endothelial dysfunction, improvement of arterial wall compliance and evolution of the atherothrombotic process) and microcirculatory function in obese patients with type-2 diabetes.

GIOIA represents a multicenter pragmatic prospective cohort study, aimed at evaluating the effects of SGLT2 inhibitors currently marketed (dapagliflozin, canagliflozin, empagliflozin) on markers of vascular, myocardial and renal damage, in patients with type 2 diabetes not well controlled with metformin and/or basal insulin. The changes of the interest outcomes are compared with those obtained with a comparator glucose lowering class (DPP-4inhibitors) over a follow-up of two years.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently the most common chronic liver disease worldwide and is a major cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer in Western countries. Because of its close association with obesity and diabetes, most patients are seen by primary care physicians and endocrinologists rather than hepatologists. Previous studies have shown that NAFLD is under-recognized outside specialist settings. As a result, many patients are undiagnosed and not receiving specific treatments. With this background, we aim to test the hypothesis that the use of simple fibrosis scores as part of a diabetes complications screening program followed by electronic reminder messages is more effective than usual care in prompting physicians to correctly identify patients with suspected NAFLD and advanced liver fibrosis for specialist referral or further liver assessment. Our secondary aim is to test the hypothesis that the use of fibrosis scores and electronic reminder messages can increase the number of patients with confirmed diagnosis of advanced liver fibrosis.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of local Zambian food in improving metabolic profiles of overweight/obese type ll diabetic patients in Kitwe district