An artificial pancreas could replace insulin trackers for type-1 diabetes sufferers. A team of American and Italian researchers successfully piloted a “novel” artificial pancreas system that showed improvements in two key measures of folks living with the metabolic disorder.
These findings were published in the journal ‘Diabetes Care’. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes.
Only five per cent of people with diabetes have this form of the disease. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin. The body breaks down the sugars and starches eaten into a simple sugar called glucose, which it uses for energy.
Type-1 diabetes manifests in people whose body does not naturally produce enough insulin, resulting in high blood sugar levels. Patients must vigilantly monitor blood glucose levels, and often require self-administered doses of insulin— via needle injection or infusion pump. Insulin is a hormone that the body needs to get glucose from the bloodstream into the cells of the body.
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Artificial pancreas raises hope for Type1 diabetes patients
These findings were published in the journal ‘Diabetes Care’. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes.
Only five per cent of people with diabetes have this form of the disease. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin. The body breaks down the sugars and starches eaten into a simple sugar called glucose, which it uses for energy.
Type-1 diabetes manifests in people whose body does not naturally produce enough insulin, resulting in high blood sugar levels. Patients must vigilantly monitor blood glucose levels, and often require self-administered doses of insulin— via needle injection or infusion pump. Insulin is a hormone that the body needs to get glucose from the bloodstream into the cells of the body.
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Artificial pancreas raises hope for Type1 diabetes patients
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