{"title":"brief history of the UK Prospective Diabetes Study","authors":"R. Holman","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.359","url":null,"abstract":"The UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) epidemiological findings confirmed that T2DM is not a “mild” disease, with roughly 50% of patients having clinically evident complica- tions at diagnosis, emphasising the need for its early detection and treatment. Hyperglycaemia was identified as an independent coronary heart disease risk factor, with progressive hyperglycaemia shown to be a major pathophysiological feature of T2DM, driven by declining beta-cell function. People with T2DM and hypertension were found to be at double jeopardy for any diabetes endpoint, and worsening kidney function was shown to increase the risk of death substantially.\u0000The UKPDS 20-year trial results were the first to demon- strate that diabetic complications are not inevitable but can be prevented by more intensive blood glucose control and by metformin therapy, changing T2DM management guide- lines worldwide. The UKPDS also showed that tighter blood pressure control prevents diabetic complications; the benefits of the glucose and blood pressure interventions are additive. The UKPDS 10-year post-trial monitoring study was the first to identify the T2DM glycaemic and metformin legacy effects, with early more intensive therapy having continuing benefits long after the trial terminated. The trial demon- strated the need to achieve good glycaemic control as early as possible to minimise the risk of future complications.","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48656482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on 60 years of caring for people with diabetes","authors":"A. Wright","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47159379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"beginning of the end for insulin? – enter immunotherapy for T1DM","authors":"C. Dayan","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.369","url":null,"abstract":"Although we have treated type 1 diabetes (T1DM) with insulin for more than 100 years, it has been apparent since the discovery of insulitis in the 1960s and islet cell antibodies in 1974 that T1DM is fundamentally an autoimmune disease, not a metabolic disease.1 Almost all other autoimmune diseases, from inflammatory bowel disease to rheumatoid arthritis, are treated with immunotherapy but not T1DM. In large part this is because of the discovery of insulin: unlike most other autoimmune diseases, a replacement therapy exists for T1DM. As a result, the discovery of insulin can be viewed as both a blessing and a curse. It is a “curse” because most of the major drug companies have developed their large immunotherapy portfolios of drugs for autoimmune diseases other than T1DM, including some such as psoriasis or alopecia areata that might be considered less life-threatening. And it is likely that diabetes practitioners are also partly to blame since they fear immunotherapy since it is a treatment with which they are not familiar. It is important to remind ourselves of the challenges of insulin therapy. It is not a drug without risk: deaths still occur from underdosage (DKA) and overdosage (hypoglycaemia). According to ONS data, in 2021 in England and Wales, 44 people under the age of 50 died of DKA and 154 died of hypoglycaemia.2 Set against this, even despite the introduction of CGM and insulin pumps, fewer than 30% of adults and children with diabetes achieve a target HbA1c < 7.0%, or 53 mmol/mol which obviates the risks of longterm complications.3 Furthermore, insulin management consumes millions of hours of patients and healthcare professional time in training, adjustments, testing and decision-making. Despite this, 36% of children and families continue to need psychological support more than five years after diagnosis (NPDA national audit 2018-2019,3 and up to 50% of adults with T1DM report significant diabetes-related distress. 4 There is a large and expanding world of highly selective immunotherapies that does not include the classic immunosuppressents (e.g. cyclosporin, tacrolimus) used in transplantation. Rather, it includes many drugs known as “biologics” that have been widely used and have been very well tolerated in other autoimmune diseases for more than 20 years. Many are monoclonal antibodies, but small molecule inhibitors such as JAK kinase inhibitors are being introduced.5 At least seven selective immunotherapies have shown efficacy in Phase 2 studies in preserving beta cell function from diagnosis compared to controls.6,7 These treatments reduce progression of the underlying disease process but do not cause regrowth of beta cells. In current clinical practice, T1DM is diagnosed at the time that insulin replacement is required. This is late in the disease course, when it is estimated that more than 80% of functional beta cells have been lost. When selective immunotherapy is given at this stage, some impact on insulin dose (and in some","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43790790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What does the next 100 years hold? The perspective of a patient with T1DM","authors":"Tim J. Street","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45942120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"flash glucose monitoring revolution: the Sat Nav journey","authors":"E. Wilmot","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47708849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sanger, Hodgkin, Yalow and the impact of insulin analogues","authors":"David Russell - Jones","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42979448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gazing into the future – what will the next 100 years of diabetes innovation look like? A perspective from industry","authors":"Zoe Cholewa","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46745286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"early noughties - Treating to Target","authors":"B. Ryder","doi":"10.15277/bjd.2022.360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15277/bjd.2022.360","url":null,"abstract":"80 years after the discovery of insulin, the early noughties The era 80 years after the discovery of insulin, the early noughties, could perhaps be labelled the “Treat to Target” era. The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), as described elsewhere in this supplement by Professor Rury Holman,1 showed that whilst the microvascular complications were reduced in the intensive arm, the HbA1c relentlessly rose as beta cells relentlessly failed (Figure 1a) no matter whether patients were in the intensive or conventional treatment arm. The study also showed that the lower the HbA1c the less likely there are to be microvascular events (Figure 1b).","PeriodicalId":42951,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Diabetes","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43832929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}