The goal of transplant is to replace the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas that are destroyed by the immune system. This can now be done two ways: a solid organ transplant or islet cell transplant.
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Patients with type 1 diabetes or insulin-requiring patients with type 2 diabetes now have easier, faster access to the support they need to manage this chronic disease.
The “metabolic crystal ball” provides differing weights for the traditional risk factors and also takes into account race, gender and ethnicity to produce an easy-to-understand metabolic severity score.
Based on personal, clinical and research experience, UVA researchers have introduced and are examining an innovative approach that shifts the focus from restricting calories and reducing weight to lowering postprandial glucose.
Know the signs of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA), a rare type of diabetes frequently misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes.