Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus"

Poor glycaemic control in pregnancy is a major factor leading to obstetric complications and future maternal-offspring diseases. This phenomenon is evidenced in women with type 1 diabetes (T1DM), and is worrisome since it is aggravating the disease burden of this and next generations. Exercise is a promising tool to improve glucose control during pregnancy and thus avoid adverse consequences. The MERIT1D study will explore when is exercise (before or after lunch) more effective to improve postprandial glycaemic control in pregnant and non-pregnant women (of reproductive age) with T1DM, and the mechanisms underlying these metabolic responses.

Beside well described peripheral effects, insulin can also affect the human central nervous system. Centrally acting insulin seems to have an influence e.g. on whole-body metabolism and food intake. Targeting insulin receptors in the central nervous system can modulate peripheral insulin sensitivity as well as pancreatic insulin secretion. In humans, the effect of insulin can be measured in different brain areas as estimate of central nervous insulin sensitivity. Reduced central nervous insulin sensitivity, called "central insulin resistance," has been associated, for example, with obesity, unfavorable body fat distribution, and impaired cognitive functionality. Recently novel subtypes and risk clusters of diabetes and prediabetes have been identified. In this study the investigators want to investigate and compare central nervous insulin sensitivity as well as cognitive function in the different diabetes and prediabetes risk clusters.

Collection of venous blood samples in 50 persons with type 1 diabetes to evaluate the behavior of different biomarkers (glucose, lactate, beta-hydroxybutyrate), and hormones (cortisol, growth hormone) during and after one morning CardioPulmonary Exercise Test and 2 aerobic (90 minutes at 40-45% of VO2 max) exercise tests under different circumstances (see Protocol).

Diabetes is one of the biggest public health problems of the 21st century. Type 2 diabetes mellitus accounts for more than 90% of all diabetes cases and is the most common type of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, in which genetic and environmental factors play a role,It is a metabolic disorder in which insulin resistance, decrease in insulin secretion and incretin hormone deficiency are effective in its physiopathology, characterized by polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria, where the organism cannot adequately benefit from carbohydrates, fats and proteins due to insulin deficiency or defects in the effect of insulin, which requires continuous medical care. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, end-stage renal disease, coronary artery disease, stroke and inferior extremity amputations. These complications due to diabetes impair the patient's quality of life and impose social, financial and emotional burdens on both the patient and their family. Diabetes education should be provided by healthcare professionals in order to ensure that diabetes patients knowledge and skills to prevent complications and provide better self management and self-care. However, The fact that individuals do not have time to spare for face-to-face health education, the possibility of accessing information in the web environment repeatedly and the lower cost of education in the web environment compared to classical education increases the importance of web-based health education. The widespread use of mobile technologies in recent years has led to the development of new mobile applications related to diabetes. The disquisition proposal the investigators prepared was created to investigate the effect of mobile application supported diabetes and nutrition education on type 2 diabetes self-management and blood sugar in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients. In this context, with the development of a mobile application prepared in visual, text and video format to provide diabetes education, the monitoring of blood parameters before and after diabetes education, and the implementation of the Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Scale, (which consists of 19 items developed in 2020), and type 2 diabetes self-management and the effect on blood sugar will be examined. This study will provide answers to questions about the effectiveness of diabetes education given to Type 2 Diabetes patients via mobile applications on diabetes self-management and blood parameters.

Canada is the only country with a universal health insurance system that does not provide coverage for prescription drugs to all residents. One-third of working-age Canadians have no insurance. Importantly, many of these uninsured patients already face other barriers to good health: low income, new immigrants, single mothers, etc. For these patients, taking prescription drugs - especially chronic disease treatments that may be required lifelong - can be difficult due to high costs. Patients skip doses, delay renewing prescriptions, or simply do not fill prescriptions recommended by their doctors, because they do not have insurance to cover the costs of prescriptions. Previous research by the study team has suggested that the lack of a universal drug insurance program for working-age Canadians affects the health and well-being of low-income people with diabetes. The goal of this research is to determine the clinical and economic impact of providing drug coverage for uninsured type 2 diabetics.

The goal of this interventional study is to compare improved outcomes among diabetes and/or hypertensive patients sequel to educational intervention. The study aims to answer the following questions: What are the patients' levels of health literacy, medication adherence, disease knowledge, attitude to disease, physical activity? Does educational intervention by pharmacists improve health outcomes of patients with diabetes and/or hypertension? Are there associations between patient-related variables such as health literacy, medication adherence, disease knowledge, attitude to disease? Participants' anthropometric measurements and point-of-care testing for disease monitoring e.g., blood pressure, blood glucose would be carried out. Baseline assessment of participants would be done to evaluate their levels of health literacy, medication adherence, disease knowledge, attitude to disease, physical activity. Patients' baseline assessment would be carried out, after which they would receive educational materials and would be followed up by pharmacist. The baseline assessments would be repeated at three and six months after the intervention to measure the effectiveness of the intervention.

This is a prospective, randomization, parallel, controlled study to evaluate the effectiveness of Shared Care diabetes management. Patients with T2DM involved in the Shared Care model pay regularly quarterly visit to a multidisciplinary team led by physician at outpatient clinic, and receive remote patient management and education after going home. After at least 3 years follow-up, patients' metabolic indexes including HbA1c, LDL-c, blood pressure, diabetes self-management behavior indexes and diabetes complications are evaluated. The primary goal is to observe the HbA1c levels and the HbA1c achieving rate. The secondary goal is to assess the diabetes self-management behavior change for patients of the Shared Care multidisciplinary diabetes care model and to assess the effect of online diabetes self-management support for patients of the Shared Care multidisciplinary diabetes care model.

Black/African American children and young adults with type 1 diabetes are less likely to use diabetes technologies, such as continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery systems, compared to White children and young adults. The investigators are working to find ways to make sure that all patients with type 1 diabetes are equally able to use these technologies. The purpose of this study is to find out if a new computer program for the diabetes team, along with a smartphone app (called Glucosano) for patients/parents, as well as a community health worker, are accepted and used by Black/African American patients and parents living with type 1 diabetes, and if this can help decrease racial disparities in the use of diabetes technologies.

Research Objectives This study aims to investigate the relationship between executive function and diet adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from both subjective and objective perspectives and to clarify the effect of executive function intervention of inhibitory control training based on computer on diet adherence. Research design This study includes three parts. In Part 1, the subjective measurement (questionnaire) and objective measurement (cognitive task performance) are combined to comprehensively explore the relationship between executive function and diet adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes. In the second part, ERP technology is used to investigate the neural mechanism of inhibitory control in type 2 diabetic patients with different diet adherence. Part III is a randomized controlled trial. The control group adopts non-food-related inhibitory control training, and the experimental group adopts food-related inhibitory control training. Participants The inclusion criteria were as follows: T2DM patients who (1) have met the 1999 WHO diagnostic criteria for diabetes; (2) have a course of disease ≥6 months; (3) have an age ≥18 years old; (4) have good verbal communication and understanding skills; (5) have normal vision or corrected vision, no color blindness or color asthenia; (6) have normal finger function and ability to do key reactions; (7) have a MoCA score ≥25; and (8) have given informed consent and were willing to participate in the study. Patients who (1) have a history of cerebrovascular disease or other central nervous system injury and (2) have difficulty completing the questionnaire or the computer-based cognitive measurement tasks were excluded. Sampling method and sample size In Part 1, convenience sampling method is used, and the sample size is calculated according to 10-15 times of the research indicators. A total of 23 research indicators were included in the analysis of this study, and at least 230 are needed. Considering the loss rate of 20%, a total of 276 subjects are needed. In the second part, convenience sampling method is also used. According to the literature reviewed, the effect size was 0.93, taking α=0.05, β=0.80, and the sample size was 40 cases calculated by GPower3.1.9.7 software. The sample size is increased by 20% considering the withdrawal of participants and sample loss. Finally, the sample size n1 (number of patients with high diet compliance) =n2 (number of patients with low diet compliance) =50 cases. In Part III, the convenience sampling method is used. The sample size was determined as 60 cases by referring to previous studies. Patients with type 2 diabetes who meet the inclusion criteria are numbered from 1 to 60. Starting from any row or column in the random number table, two digits are read in turn as a random number under the number, and then all the random numbers are sequenced from small to large. This study is a single-blind trial, and only the investigators themselves are aware of the group assignment, and the subjects are unaware of the group assignment.

This quasi-experimental study aims to determine the effectiveness of a health intervention (Chance2Act) on behaviour change to act for weight loss among overweight/obese type 2 diabetes adults. The main question it aims to answer is: - Is the new health intervention (Chance2Act) effective in changing overweight/obese type 2 diabetes adults from not being ready to act, to take action to lose weight?