As if entering adulthood wasn’t tough enough, teens with diabetes face an extra challenge just about the time they’re graduating from high school and reaching adulthood: they’re forced to transition from close, intimate pediatric care settings to the hard, “get ‘em in, get ‘em out” world of adult healthcare, where so much depends on jobs, health insurance and self-motivation.
Historically pretty much ignored by the medical establishment, “emerging adults” with diabetes, ranging from 18 to…
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Results of the seven-year-long TODAY study (Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth) are out and as expected, they aren’t pretty.
Bottom line of this study, which is the largest of its kind to ever be done: No matter what medication’s being used, kids and teens have a harder time managing their type 2 diabetes and keeping blood sugars down. Lifestyle interventions and medications aren’t working even when they’re taken as prescribed,…
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Attending the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions as patients certainly affords us a unique window into progress on diabetes tools and devices, clinical research, and cure research. But what about the health professionals for whom this conference was actually designed? Surely they have a different perspective on all the “breaking news.”
For some insight from an attending clinician and researcher, we turned one of our favorite diabetes experts, Dr. Richard Jackson, an endocrinologist at the…
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