Type 1 Diabetes is the most common life-long disorder with onset in childhood. Patients need insulin injections, blood sugar monitoring several times each day, and adhere to a strict diet. Adequate control of blood glucose is essential to prevent long term kidney and eye complications that result in kidney failure and blindness. Adolescence is a time when diabetes is difficult to control, due in part to high growth hormone levels causing insulin resistance ( a state where the body does not respond as strongly to insulin). This study will test whether treatment with rosiglitazone (an oral medication used frequently in type 2 diabetes) will reduce the insulin resistance of adolescence and improve the control of type 1 diabetes during puberty.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
32
Sydney Children's Hospital
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
HbA1c
insulin dose
frequency of severe hypoglycaemia
insulin sensitivity assessed by euglycaemic, hyperinsulinaemic clamp
weight
BMI-SDS
skin fold thickness
cholesterol
adiponectin
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