300,000+ clinical trials. Find the right one.

454 active trials for Diabetes Mellitus - Type 2

Congenital Heart Anomaly Risk in Maternal Enteroviral Infection and Diabetes

Beyond EV-B, there are clinical observations to implicate other viruses in birth defects, including CHD. Since the Rubella epidemic of 1960s', however, viruses have received little attention and certainly no comprehensive study, especially using next generation sequencing (NGS), has been undertaken in this context. The current pandemic as well as those caused by Zika, influenza, Ebola and Lassa Fever (among many) have shown pregnant women and their baby are at high risk. Therefore, an open-minded approach is warranted when considering the role of maternal viral infections in CHD. Even less is known about maternal immune response, such as antibody production, to these viruses. The investigator's goal is to answer the above gaps in knowledge. The investigators propose to do that using two different approaches; one retrospective (analysis of samples in two existing, large biorepositories) and the other prospective. The investigator's have created a multi-disciplinary team to bring together the needed expertise from individuals who have overlapping and vested interest in this project. The investigator's specific aim is to examine the diversity of the gut virome in non-pregnant and pregnant women with and without diabetes, with special emphasis on known cardiotropic viruses (those with tropism for cardiac tissues). This study is seen by the investigator's as the first step prior to a larger prospective multi-institutional study to specifically assess the linkage between the maternal virome and CHD pathogenesis.

Start: February 2021
Evaluation of Accuracy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) in Patients With End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) on Intermittent Hemodialysis (iHD).

Recent advances in continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and availability of commercial CGM products to patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes has made the use of CGM more widespread. CGMs work by placing a probe underneath the skin of a patient, into the interstitial space. Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who are on intermittent hemodialysis (iHD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) undergo fluid shifts between the interstitial fluid and intravascular space during dialysis treatments.These fluid shifts, uremia, acidosis, and volume overload (increase in interstitial fluid volume due to ESRD) have the potential to impact the performance of the most advanced and commercially available CGMs; however, use of CGM in these patients has not yet been studied.Use of CGM, and potentially hybrid closed loop insulin delivery systems that are dependent on accurate continuous glucose monitoring, has the potential to improve glucose control and quality of life in these patients (7). This study team feels that this study will be valuable in collecting preliminary data needed with the goal of validating the use of CGM in this patient population. The specific aim is to conduct a pilot study to evaluate the accuracy of continuous glucose monitors (CGM) in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients on intermittent hemodialysis (iHD).

Start: February 2020
The Proportion of Patients With Non-diagnosed Diabetes Type 2

The aims of the study are to determine the prevalence of diabetes in subgroups of the population with certain characteristics (age, gender, socioeconomic status, geographical area of residence), to estimate the proportion of those patients with diabetes treated without drugs, to estimate the proportion of the patients in which diabetes is not yet diagnosed, and to develop a proposal and recommendations for the development, implementation and evaluation of programs for the prevention and early diagnosis of diabetes. An analysis of the prevalence of diabetes in population subgroups and an estimate of the proportion of those patients who have non-drug treated diabetes will be drawn upon the data from the National Health and Health System Survey 2019, run by National Institute of Public Health. Methodologically it is a cross-sectional survey using a survey questionnaire based on the European Health Interview Survey. A sample of 16,000 inhabitants is invited to participate. The database contains sets of questions about health status, health markers and health care, and contains all the information that the research project covers. All those interviewees from the National Health and Health System Survey 2019 who are not aware to have diabetes will be invited to the health examination survey. They will be invited to perform an oral glucose tolerance test (once or twice, based on the results). In this way, diabetes can be diagnosed in those individuals who already have diabetes, but have not yet been aware of it. Secondary analyses of the data and the measurement of HbA1c from the sample of blood taken at the same collection will also give the opportunity to assess for example, the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, their combinations, and obtain more data on the clinical meaning of oral glucose tolerance test versus HbA1c in diagnosing diabetes in Slovenian context. We estimate that approximately 1500-2000 people will perform the health examination survey part.

Start: January 2020