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Gut health and type 1 diabetes risk

Check out the Centre's Professor Liz Davis featured in an article about gut health and type 1 diabetes risk in The Post.

Paradigm shift: time to de-emphasise hypo risk in kids

It’s time to back off from the fear-mongering around severe hypoglycaemia, according to Children's Diabetes Centre researchers who point to increasing evidence that improved glycaemic control in children with type 1 diabetes is not associated with increasing rates of hypoglycaemia.

Free-living CGM Performance Study

Participants are needed for a new study that will test the performance of a new Medtronic sensor with readings from finger-pricks.

PJs for a day to help sick kids

Eleven-year-old twins Grace and Lilyana Musca had never spent time in hospital when they decided to organise a pyjama day at Hocking Primary School to raise money for sick children earlier this year.

Research roundup

Take a look at some of the published research to come out of the Children's Diabetes Centre recently.

Kids 'rock' out at diabetes camp

Diabetes WA and Perth Children’s Hospital’s recent camp proved to be a “rock-star” hit for kids living with type 1 diabetes.

What is DACS?

DACS – Diabetes Ambulatory Care Service – is a new model of care at Perth Children’s Hospital for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Glycemic and Psychosocial Outcomes of Advanced Hybrid Closed-Loop Therapy in Youth With High HbA1c: A Randomized Clinical Trial

To determine the efficacy of advanced hybrid closed-loop therapy in a high-risk cohort of youth on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion with or without continuous glucose monitoring with suboptimal glycemia.

Hybrid Closed-Loop Versus Manual Insulin Delivery in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Post Hoc Analysis Using the Glycemia Risk Index

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.

Socioeconomic representativeness of Australian, Canadian and British cohorts from the paediatric diabetes AdDIT study: comparisons to regional and national data

Given limited data regarding the involvement of disadvantaged groups in paediatric diabetes clinical trials, this study aimed to evaluate the socioeconomic representativeness of participants recruited into a multinational clinical trial in relation to regional and national type 1 diabetes reference populations.