Clinical Research from VoyageMD

Our main aim at VoyageMD is to make travelling with diabetes safer and easier and we are making progress. Meanwhile we also believe that it is vital that we continue to contribute to medical research.

The focus of our research is 100% clinical – directly for the benefit of people living with diabetes. We are not involved in basic research or research involving animals.

We would like to keep everyone up to date with our research program. Here is a list of our recent publications since the start of 2011.

If you would like to support our research program – clinical research is very expensive then we would love to hear from you!

If anyone requires more information please ping us at: david.kerr@voyagemd.com


Here are the references with the Journal name and link together with summary “tweets” for the non-experts:

1. Hypoglycemia  decreases  myocardial  blood  flow  reserve  in  type 1  diabetes  and  in  healthy  humans. Circulation.

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2011/09/11/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.992297.long

Heart problems caused by low glucose levels may due to reduced blood flow to the heart rather than rhythm problems?

2. HbA1c 3 months after the diagnosis predicts premature mortality in patients with new onset type 2 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21913968

At diagnosis of type 2 #diabetes control blood glucose levels as well as possible in the first 3 months – the benefit lasts a long time

3. Insulin pump therapy with automated insulin suspension in response to hypoglycemia: reduction in nocturnal hypoglycemia in those at greatest risk. Diabetes Care

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/34/9/2023.long

New pumps that stop infusing insulin when the glucose sensor detects a hypo could reduce risk of severe ones #diabetes

4. Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: teaching an old dog new tricks. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

http://journalofdst.org/worldpress/index.php?s=kerr&submit=Search

Thinking about timing and frequency of finger-stick blood testing in type 2 #diabetes can help to achieve better glucose control

5. Using insulin in type 2 diabetes – in need of a renaissance? Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

http://journalofdst.org/worldpress/index.php?s=kerr&submit=Search

New technologies such as bolus calculators can overcome barriers to intensive insulin therapy in type 2 #diabetes

6. Deus ex Machina: the use of technology in type 1 diabetes. Primary Care Diabetes

http://www.primary-care-diabetes.com/article/S1751-9918(10)00138-5/abstract

Health care providers in primary care need to be aware of the potential benefits of technologies for #diabetes care