Diabetes: For Researchers and Health Care Providers

Information on Diabetes in General (specific topics follow)

• The NIDDK has a main focus on diabetes, especially in adults and women who are not pregnant. NDEP, co-supported by the CDC, offers a variety of diabetes-related information.
  • Diabetes research sponsored by NIDDK includes researcher resources, funding opportunities, reports, and other research information on diabetes.
  • The Diabetes Numbers at a Glance pocket reference, from NDEP, is based on the ADA clinical recommendations for diagnosing and managing prediabetes and diabetes.
  • These general resources for health care professionals, from NDEP, comprise clinical practice tools and patient education materials relevant to prediabetes and diabetes.
  • Helping Student w/Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel, from NDEP, is a resource guide that helps those involved with a student’s care and education provide optimal diabetes management in school.
• ADA
  • DiabetesPro, from the ADA, provides professional resources relevant to diabetes, such as clinical practice recommendations, slides, CME programs, interest groups, and more.

Type 1

• NICHD
  • The Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Growth (ENG) Branch provides the NICHD with a focus for research and research training in type 1 diabetes and other topics related to nutritional science, childhood antecedents of adult disease, developmental endocrinology, developmental neuroendocrinology, and physical growth and body composition.
    • The ENG Branch Report to NACHHD Council 2009 outlines the research and research training supported by the Branch, including research on type 1 diabetes.
• NIDDK
  • This summary of the Diabetes Prevention Trial—Type 1 describes basic information about two interrelated trials to delay or prevent type 1 diabetes.
  • This 2009 Congressional testimony from NIDDK describes research advances and opportunities in type 1 diabetes research.
• ADA
  • This summary of treatment advances for type 1 diabetes from a 2011 conference, describes recent research on medications to slow the progression of type 1 diabetes.

Type 2

• NICHD
  • The Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Growth (ENG) Branch provides the NICHD with a focus for research and research training in type 2 diabetes and other topics related to nutritional science, childhood antecedents of adult disease, developmental endocrinology, developmental neuroendocrinology, and physical growth and body composition.
    • The ENG Branch Report to NACHHD Council 2009 outlines the research and research training supported by the Branch, including research on type 2 diabetes.
• NIDDK
  • The NIDDK’s LookAhead Trial studies the long-term effects, in type 2 diabetes and other areas, of an intensive lifestyle intervention program designed to achieve and maintain weight loss by decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity.
  • The Diabetes Prevention Program study examines the safety and efficacy of two interventions relative to a control group in preventing or delaying the confirmed development of diabetes.
  • SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth is a national multi-center study aimed at understanding more about diabetes among children and young adults in the United States, funded by NIDDK and CDC.
• NEI
  • The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network is a collaborative network dedicated to facilitating multicenter clinical research of diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, and associated conditions.

Gestational Diabetes

• NICHD
  • The Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Growth (ENG) Branch provides the NICHD with a focus for research and research training in gestational diabetes and other topics related to nutritional science, childhood antecedents of adult disease, developmental endocrinology, developmental neuroendocrinology, and physical growth and body composition.
    • The ENG Branch Report to NACHHD Council 2009 outlines the research and research training supported by the Branch, including research on gestational diabetes.
  • One interest of the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research (DESPR) is GDM, including the following areas of study:
    • The epidemiology and etiology of GDM
• Additional
  • The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG’s) recommendations for Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus provide guidance for physicians working with women who may have this condition.
  • The Summary and Recommendations of the Fifth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, from the ADA, reviews the evidence on this disorder (as of 2005).

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