"'Bionic Pancreas' OK For Very Young T1D Patients" - Kristen Monaco
Kids with type 1 diabetes as young as seven-years-old could benefit from a closed-loop insulin pump system, researchers reported. In the trial that tested Medtronic's MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop system in patients with type 1 diabetes, all age groups saw significant improvements in HbA1c levels over the three-month study. Robert Rapaport, MD, professor of pediatrics and chief in the division of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said, "This is a very promising study. It does have some limitations, such as lack of a comparative control group, relatively few children in the study, and only a 3-month observation period. Still, even with those caveats, I do think this pump will become one of the key treatment modalities that will be available for the management of even young children with type 1 diabetes."
- Robert Rapaport, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai