747 - The Lack of Research Around Type 1 Diabetes
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
There's a lot of research around Type 2 diabetes that has informed patient care when it comes to diagnosis, treatment, and lifestyle management. But much less is known about Type 1, long mislabeled "childhood diabetes." Johns Hopkins epidemiologists Elizabeth Selvin and Michael Fang talk with Stephanie Desmon about new research debunking a lot of previously held assumptions about Type 1 diabetes, the prevalence of adult onset and correlation with obesity, and why different approaches to diagnosis and management are necessary. They also discuss the cost of insulin and why more research is needed around medications like Ozempic for Type 1 diabetes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:34.5 | This is Lindsay Smith-Rogers. |
| 0:36.8 | Today, the topic is diabetes and our greater understanding of type 1 diabetes long called |
| 0:42.8 | childhood diabetes. |
| 0:44.9 | Johns Hopkins epidemiologists Mike Fang and Liz Sullivan talked to Stephanie Desmond about their research |
| 0:51.1 | that bust some myths about the disease. |
| 0:54.1 | Four in 10 adults with type 1 diabetes are diagnosed after age 30, for example, |
| 0:59.8 | and why much more needs to be learned before the medicines changing the lives of those with |
| 1:04.3 | type two diabetes can be used to treat type one. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:10.1 | Mike Fang and Liz Selvin, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.4 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:14.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.4 | So today we're going to talk about diabetes. |
| 1:17.9 | And I want to sort of hear us about some of your research that really challenges what |
| 1:22.7 | we have long understood about type 1 diabetes, which I know you guys have already corrected me, is no longer |
| 1:30.0 | called childhood diabetes. And maybe we should start with the research that you've done that |
| 1:34.9 | tells us what the age of onset really is. Mike? Yeah, thank you. So you're right. Type 1 diabetes for the longest time was called juvenile diabetes, |
| 1:48.7 | and it was thought to be this disease that had a childhood onset, right? So it was something that |
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