Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

Looking for strict normoglycemia in type 1 diabetes increases the risk of hypoglycemia, exposing to hypoglycemia unawareness. It has been shown that the early correction of hypoglycemia can help recovering the perception of hypoglycemia. The purpose of this prospective study was to assess the value of sensor-augmented insulin-pump therapy to treat hypoglycemia unawareness.

The hippocampus is an area of brain which plays an essential role in learning and memory processing and is thought to be particularly vulnerable to effects of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose). The goal of this project is to examine hippocampal neurochemistry and metabolism and identify how diabetes and recurrent hypoglycemia alter the hippocampus.

The purpose of this study is to see if the Artificial Pancreas (AP) Platform can successfully control blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes mellitus on insulin pump therapy in a hospital setting. Investigators will also be studying to see if the heart rate informed Control To Range (hrCTR) can improve the performance of the system during and immediately after exercise.

Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 using electronic self-help tools typically registers a large amount of data on their disease. The study intends to see if giving advanced feedback on these data can improve their blood glucose management.

Clinical measures of adipose tissue mass (BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) do not adequately explain the inter-individual and ethnic heterogeneity in diabetes. . There is a need to identify novel/universal markers of risk for diabetes (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). These biomarkers also can become additional outcome measures for an intervention such as pancreatic/kidney transplant. If biological markers show an improvement with an intervention before anthropometric changes occur, intermediate outcomes can be an encouraging finding for practitioners. This study will focus on the central question of "adipose tissue dysfunction" as mediator of metabolic complications of positive energy balance, independent of body fat content and distribution. This study will address the question of effect of hyperglycemia on adipose tissue function independent of body fat mass. This project will take advantage of unique expertise of our investigators to perform detailed metabolic studies in patients with diabetes who undergo pancreatic/kidney transplant. The results of the proposed study will provide support to the novel approach of identifying adipose tissue dysfunction, rather than obesity and fat distribution, as predictor of diabetes and CVD across all ethnic groups, age and gender. We will obtain necessary preliminary data for future grant submissions to support our central hypothesis and develop stronger interactions within and outside The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) with clinical investigators in the area of DM and its complications.

Anyone who practices clinical medicine will understand that socially disadvantaged children will have worse health outcomes, no matter what the underlying condition might be. There is limited prospective data on the effects of social deprivation on children in BC and there is none concerning the effects of social deprivation on children with chronic diseases. In order to generate relevant data for those who manage children with chronic diseases in BC, the investigators wish to perform an observational study of the relationship between questionnaire-derived social variables and measured outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis, type 1 diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. Our working hypothesis is that there is an association between social determinants of health (income, education, race) and health outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis, type 1 diabetes and chronic renal failure, that is independent of access to health care (assessed by distance to nearest specialty clinic and number of clinic visits in the last year).

The investigators hypothesise that manipulating the glycaemic index of the meal after exercise will influence the acute appetite responses of Type 1 diabetes individuals

The investigators hypothesise that reducing basal insulin dose (Glargine, Lantus, Sanofi-Aventis, or Detemir, Levemir, Novo Nordisk), whilst employing current carbohydrate feeding and rapid-acting insulin dose recommendations will protect patients with type 1 diabetes from early- and late-onset hypoglycaemia following evening time exercise.

Home and school visits by multidisciplinary team will improve metabolic control in kids having insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

This study is conducted in Asia. The aim of this study is to evaluate long term safety and efficacy in patients with diabetes mellitus in routine clinical practice in India.