Tuesday Topic: 4 Real Takeaways From A Scottish Type 1 Diabetes Study

Scottish Type 1 Diabetes Real Takeaways

Every so often, we at the DDG like to explore and breakdown what’s being presented in the nightly news, when diabetes-related. In the last week we were ambushed with this little tid-bit, “People with T1D have shorter life-expectancies”. Wonderful news right? Shocking? Not at all. Here’s the key background info: Scottish study, Dundee University, and studied 24,000 T1Ds over 20 years of age from 2008 to 2010. (more…)