Search Results for: A1c
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Treatment
Insulin Pumps May Be Ticket to Better Cholesterol
Type 1 diabetics are at an increased rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with an estimated 44% of adult T1Ds dying…
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Big Picture Priority — Reduce your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
As a diabetic, you make a thousand tiny decisions every day in the name of maintaining healthy, stable blood sugars.…
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Closed-Loop System Shows Promise for Improving Diabetes Outcomes
A new study looking at the efficacy of closed-loop pump systems was recently published in The New England Journal of…
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Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Need More Support To Achieve Goals
For years, qualitative studies looking into the inherent challenges of achieving diabetes management goals have focused on children and adolescents.…
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New Study Reveals Importance of CGMs in Diabetes Management
A recent study published in Diabetes Care compared the A1Cs and time-in-range of people who used finger pricks to test…
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Is Medtronic’s Partnership With CDPHP Improving Diabetes Management?
Medtronic, one of the largest medical tech companies in the world, recently announced a partnership with Capital District Physicians’ Health…
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Why I Don’t Use Auto Mode on My MiniMed 670g
When Medtronic first announced they were launching a hybrid closed loop pump system, I was ecstatic. After all, not only…
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Living
Making the Right Medicare Supplement Plan Choice
We spoke with Burt Kravitz about choosing Medicare Supplement plans. ‘Picking the right Part B Supplement plan is the most…
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5 Things You’re Doing That Increase Your Risk of DKA
Throughout the last decade of living as a T1D, I’ve been vaguely familiar with the concept of diabetic ketoacidosis. I…
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Living
Diabetes Burnout vs. Depression: What’s the Difference?
It is a massive understatement to say that diabetes can be “stressful”. Living with any type of diabetes is a…
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When is it Time to Fire Your Doctor?
When the white coat walks in, it’s easy to forget that they work for you. Especially with a condition like…
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Living
Living a Longer Sweet Life
Less than a hundred years ago, being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes was practically a death sentence. Most people lived,…
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Painful Medicare Journey to get GGM/Pump Coverage
We spoke with Tom Linn an attorney in Colorado who was diagnosed with T1D at age 69, 3 years ago. …
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Using the Insulin Resistance Diet to Help Control Your Type 1 Diabetes
Your diet impacts your insulin resistance In my latest article, I talked about the important role insulin resistance can play…
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My Story
Why I Finally Made the Switch to an Insulin Pump
I was more than four years into my diabetic journey before I finally asked my endocrinologist to help me start…
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Living
Newly Diagnosed and Impressed with T1D Technology
We spoke with Leika Scott, age 22 and a 2018 graduate of Saint Anselm College Nursing School who self-diagnosed her…
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Living
FDA’s rejection of SGLT for T1D
SGLT2 Development and Method of Action Ever since the first SGLT2 inhibitor (dapagliflozin) was approved by the EU in 2011…
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Insulin Resistance and Type 1 Diabetes
Insulin resistance isn’t something most type 1 diabetics spend a lot of time dwelling on. And why would they? This…
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Living
Reader Correspondence
Should I get my son a pump Hello My son Abdo 15 Y old, has DM type 1 since Jan…
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Living
Why I Celebrate the Anniversary of My T1D Diagnosis
In my house, April 6th is known as Donut Day. It’s considered a true holiday, right up there with Valentine’s…
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