How soon to start kids with diabetes on insulin pumps?
Initiating pump therapy early results in lower rates of hospitalisation study shows
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Children with type 1 diabetes who initiate insulin pump use within six months of diagnosis have better outcomes than those who delay initiation until the second or third year after diagnosis, a study suggests.
Researchers examined data on more than 8300 youth diagnosed with type 1 diabetes between the ages of six months and 15 years.