Screening

Who should be offered screening? People with a family member who has type 1 diabetes are 15 times more likely to develop type 1 than the general population and should …

Type 2 diabetes, if not treated properly, can have crushing effects. On individuals, families, communities.Whiteville High School nurse Paula Inman-Nance sees the problem every day. In her community. In students …

The American Diabetes Association stated in their 2025 guidelines that retinopathy status should be assessed among patients with diabetes who undergo an intensification of glucose-lowering therapies, including glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors, …

In a Contemporary Pediatrics interview, Renuka Dias, PhD, MBBS, consultant pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Birmingham, discussed the findings of the Early Surveillance for Autoimmune Diabetes (ELSA) study, a …

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have reported efficacy from childhood screening for type 1 diabetes, publishing their findings in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.1 More than 1 in 4 …

Large-scale screening found children with early-stage type 1 diabetes before severe symptoms appeared, reducing the risk of diabetic ketoacidosisThe test looks for autoantibodies that signal an immune attack on insulin-producing …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A landmark UK study involving tens of thousands of families has shown that childhood screening for type 1 diabetes is effective, laying the groundwork for a …

Launched in 2022, ELSA is the first UK study of its kind, tested blood samples from 17,931 children aged 3-13 for autoantibodies, markers of type 1 diabetes that can appear …

Researchers behind a large-scale feasibility trial of a finger-prick blood test for type 1 diabetes (T1D) have said it can identify children with the disease earlier and allow prompt treatment. …

A landmark UK study involving tens of thousands of families has shown that childhood screening for type 1 diabetes is effective, laying the groundwork for a UK-wide childhood screening program. Results from the first phase …