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The year 2013 saw the progress in our research from purely lab-based studies towards taking a step closer to translational research.

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TrialNet: Pathway to Prevention

This study is helping us to learn how type 1 diabetes develop and ways to delay and prevent it.

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Investigating mortality rates and the incidence and risk factors of diabetes complications and co-morbidities during early adult life in a population based childhood onset diabetes cohort

Using the WA Data Linkage System to provide information of the incidence and relative risk of T1D co-morbidities and mortality during early adulthood.

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Tim Jones

Co-head, Diabetes and Obesity Research

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What life is like living with type 1 diabetes

Every decision a child with type 1 diabetes makes can impact on their blood glucose levels.

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Environmental factors could trigger rise in type 1 diabetes

New research from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has revealed an unexpected pattern in the rate and incidence of type 1 diabetes

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Cardiac autonomic dysfunction is associated with high-risk albumin-to-creatinine ratio in young adolescents with type 1 diabetes in AdDIT

This study examined the association between cardiac autonomic dysfunction and high albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

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Risk factors for decline in IQ in youth with type 1 diabetes over the 12 years from diagnosis/illness onset

This study examined illness-related change in intelligence quotient (IQ) in a cohort of youth with type 1 diabetes studied prospectively from disease onset...

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Efficacy and safety of sirolimus in a neonate with persistent hypoglycaemia following near-total pancreatectomy for hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia

This study looks at hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia, as characterised by inappropriate insulin secretion, as it is the most common cause for persistent...

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Incidence of and risk factors for hospitalisations due to vascular complications: A population-based type 1 diabetes cohort (n=1316) followed into early adulthood

Determining the incidence of hospitalisations and risk factors for vascular complications experienced during early adulthood in patients with childhood T1D