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Managing Stress with Type 1 Diabetes

Life is full of stress, whether it’s the excitement of an upcoming event or the stress over a deadline at work or school. Understanding the effects of stress on the body for people with diabetes can make navigating the added issues that stress causes a little easier. We’ll explain some key insights about stress as it relates to diabetes, and some tips on how to cope with life’s many stressors. Stress and the Human Body When your mind or body feels stress, a hormonal response gets triggered and it signals to the liver that the body needs energy.1 It does […]

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Diabetes and your Kidneys: What you should know

As many of us are already painfully aware, diabetes affects everything in the body. But there are some areas that it affects more often than others, and for that reason we monitor a variety of things to make sure everything is working up to par. For people with diabetes, some of the biggest risks for complications include cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, retinopathy, and neuropathy.1 If you have diabetes or love someone with diabetes, none of this is news to you. And this article is not meant to increase your stress! We want to provide you with the knowledge that you […]

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The Benefits of Diabetes Summer Camps

Now that the world is beginning to re-open and take us back to pre-pandemic times, we’re all trying to figure out how to take advantage of our renewed sense of freedom. If you have children, you’re probably starting to look at the calendar and figure out what summer camp options are available near you. CWD has you covered with a comprehensive list of diabetes camps all over the United States listed by state. Peer Support Matters1 Most of you reading this can probably remember the first time you met someone else that has diabetes or has a child with diabetes. […]

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Diabetes Can Be Complicated

Despite the significant advancements in type 1 diabetes care over the last ten years, along with having multiple different hybrid closed-loop systems available, most Americans are not achieving glycemic goals.1 Although it’s wonderful to celebrate the trend of decreasing occurrences of complications experienced by people with type 1 diabetes, it’s also important to understand the risks that are still present. Drs. Subramanian and Hirsch from the University of Washington published a recent article discussing the implications of the 30-year follow-up results from the landmark DCCT and EDIC trials, which provides really important insight for people with type 1 diabetes.2 The […]

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Overcoming Challenges for Women with Diabetes

In 2021, we published an article about needing more research on people with diabetes assigned female at birth that discussed a lack of research on common challenges that women with diabetes experience. In this article, we will present research articles published since the last article relating to women with diabetes. Please note, that when we are referring to “women” we are referring to anyone who has a uterus, as we will be discussing menstruation and menopause. Menstruation Research Updates Keeping your blood glucose levels in target range is not easy to do at baseline. When you add the changes in […]

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Challenges in Flattening the Post-Meal Spike

People often say that managing diabetes is so difficult because you can eat the same thing every day, take the same dose of insulin, and have different blood sugars each day. This can be so frustrating and make people feel like they are failing at their diabetes. But getting the bolus for meals right depends on many things, including counting the carbohydrates accurately, timing the bolus properly given the glycemic index or fat and protein content, and ensuring that the insulin gets into the body properly, to name a few. What the Research Shows High post-meal glucose levels affect Time […]

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Psychosocial Factors in Type 1 Diabetes

When you live with type 1 diabetes, your everyday normal activities both affect your blood glucose levels and are affected by your blood glucose levels. Every time that you want to eat, exercise, drive, go for a walk around your neighborhood, go out for a drink with friends, there are extra considerations that you have to take because of diabetes. This added stress can take a toll on people with diabetes and their loved ones, adding to increased risks for mental health challenges. Recently, researchers in Slovenia published a literature review about psychosocial factors that affect the onset and management […]

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Hypoglycemia Unawareness

Diabetes experts believe that around 25% of people living with type 1 diabetes have impaired awareness of hypoglycemia, or hypoglycemia unawareness.1 Given that there are very real acute risks of having hypoglycemia, being able to recognize when your blood sugar is either low or dropping can be lifesaving. In 2021, researchers in the Netherlands conducted a study on 509 people with type 1 diabetes over a three-year period to see if C-peptide levels and other variables are related to having hypoglycemic unawareness .2 Previous studies that have shown that C-peptide was protective against severe hypoglycemia, but C-peptide had not yet […]

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Type 1 Diabetes and SGLT2 Inhibitors

Managing type 1 diabetes and keeping blood sugars within target ranges is complex and challenging. Since 2005, there have been six new medication classes brought to the market in the United States for treating diabetes.1 While many were aimed to help the rising number of people with type 2 diabetes, two classes of medications have been shown to help people with type 1 diabetes as well. The two classes of medications are GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors. Good thing those names make it easy to understand, right? We’ll break down the meaning of SGLT2 inhibitors in this article, and here […]

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Bolusing for Fat and Protein

The era of continuous glucose monitoring has put a spotlight on the many fluctuations that a person with diabetes (PWD) has in a day, and even in an hour sometimes. With access to this data, it is understandable why PWD are looking to make the hills in their blood sugar roller coasters less steep. One way to help decrease the dreaded post-meal spike is to do what we can to match insulin to the food we’re eating. It’s not just about the pre-bolus; it is also about the types of food consumed and how quickly or slowly foods absorb in […]

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