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A new ongoing Q & A series focusing on different research themes within the Children’s Diabetes Centre - focus: exercise team.
Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes is challenging, and perhaps even more so when the child is a toddler. Mindful of this and considering the unique needs of families caring for very young children with type 1 diabetes, PCH's Diabetes Clinic is currently
With COVID-19 currently under control in WA, Perth Children's Hospital's diabetes Service is beginning to plan for a return to best practice face-to-face care in clinics in the coming months.
Did you catch Professor Liz Davis, co-director of the Children's Diabetes Centre and head of Perth Children's Hospital's endocrinology department, on RTR FM's Fitter Happier segment recently?
We have put together some activities that you can do while you’re at home with your family. It’s important to talk to your family about how you are feeling, and we hope these activities will encourage those conversations while having a bit of fun.
Doctors are urging parents not to risk their child becoming seriously ill by avoiding taking them to hospital or a GP surgery because of coronavirus. Story by The West Australian featuring Professor Liz Davis.
April Welsh loves a challenge. Diagnosed with diabetes just before turning 4, the 26-year-old recently she was part of a four-person team that conquered the Rottnest Channel 19.7km open water swim.
Glycemia risk index (GRI) is a novel composite metric assessing overall glycemic risk, accounting for both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and weighted toward extremes. Data assessing GRI as an outcome measure in closed-loop studies and its relation with conventional key continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) metrics are limited.
The usual output following health consultations from paediatric services is a clinical letter to the referring professional or primary care provider, with a copy sent to the patient's caregiver. There is little research on how patients and caregivers perceive the letter content.
To assess relationships between continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) time in range (TIR), 70-180 mg/dL, time below range (TBR), <70 mg/dL, time above range (TAR), >180 mg/dL, and glucose coefficient of variation (CV) in relation to currently recommended clinical CGM targets for older people, which recommend reduced TIR and TBR targets relative to the general type 1 diabetes population.