Study provides hope for diabetics
Published: February 05, 2021
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have tested what they call an “artificial pancreas” – a creation that is designed to improve blood sugar control in diabetics. The scientists reportedly tested the appliances on 17 children with type 1 diabetes. The children were hooked up to the system, monitored and controlled – and kept within a healthy, “normal” range – the blood sugar levels in the patients. The contraption, so abcnews.com reports, kept the blood sugar levels in the patients in the normal range 60 percent of the time.
The pancreas creates insulin to carry glucose from meals to the cells of the body. In type 1 diabetic patients, the body destroys the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin. Find out more about type 1 diabetes.
The study, published in British medical journal The Lancet, was targeted at improving juvenile diabetes. The contraption is the size of a matchbox.
Professor of diabetology at Montpellier University Hospital in Montpellier, France, Dr. Eric Renard, said of the study, quoted by the NY Times: “This is an important step in diabetes control because it shows that, with this system, people can sleep safely with minimized risk of hypoglycemia.”
“These devices could transform the management of type 1 diabetes, but it is likely to be a gradual process,” Roman Hovorka of Cambridge, who led the research, told abcnews.com.
“It’s a bit like with mobile phones,” he continued. “When we started, the technology wasn’t very good and the functionality was limited, and it took a number of generations to move to the device that we have now. I see the same thing with this system.”
Other celebrities who suffer from Type 1 diabetes include Nick Jonas, Bret Michaels, Casey Johnson and Sharon Stone.
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