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Seeking Participants: Studying Pregnancy and People with Multiple Chronic Health Conditions
We want to learn more about pregnancy in people who have multiple long-term physical conditions (such as diabetes) or mental health conditions. We want to better understand people’s experiences of using health care during pregnancy. Why are we doing this research? In Ontario, about one out of every six pregnant people has more than one...
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Seeking Participants: People with Prediabetes and Mild Diabetes – Characteristics, Management and Outcomes
Purpose Diabetes is a global health challenge and can lead to serious health issues such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage, vision loss, and early death. In Canadian populations, diabetes is on the rise, especially type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is diagnosed when a person’s blood sugar level, measured by A1c, is 6.5% or...
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Clinical Research for Non-researchers: Part 2
Part 2: Questions About the Future “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. This quote, attributed to baseball legend Yogi Berra, nicely captures the challenge faced by clinical researchers. Research is about creating new knowledge and insights. Clinical research is about creating new knowledge and insights focused on health. That means identifying, diagnosing,...
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Clinical Research for Non-researchers: Part 1
Part 1: Questions “I never want to be on dialysis, and I don’t want to deal with this diabetes”. That was the first thing my Tuesday afternoon patient said as she walked into the room for her initial visit with me. Her family doctor had just discovered that she had diabetes along with some kidney...
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Seeking Trial Participants: Obesity Management for Kidney Transplantation in Type 2 Diabetes
In healthy individuals, blood sugars are controlled by a hormone called insulin, which lowers blood sugar levels. For people with type 2 diabetes, they can no longer produce or use enough insulin to control their blood sugars, which can lead to health complications such as nerve damage, sight loss, heart disease, kidney disease, anxiety, amputations,...
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The Story Behind the Diabetes Clinical Trials Network
The Problem One out of 10 Canadian adults are currently living with diabetes. This proportion and the total number of people with diabetes has increased over the last 20 years. It is even higher in many other countries in the world. This rising level is seen in all types of diabetes, and despite much research,...