Clinical Trials, Guidelines, and Research Reports

Studies Recruiting Patients

• Studies at the NIH Clinical Center
  Patient studies under way at the NIH research hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
  
  
• NIDDK Multi-Center Studies
  NIDDK-funded studies at locations across the United States. Type 1 diabetes clinical studies are in particular need of volunteers.
  
  
• ClinicalTrials.gov
  NIH's comprehensive, consumer-friendly database of clinical trials for patients and others at more than 47,000 locations across the United States.

Guidelines

• Clinical Practice Guidelines
  Link to the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Research Reports

• Conquering Diabetes: Highlights of Program Efforts, Research Advances and Opportunities—A Scientific Progress Report on the Diabetes Research Working Group's Strategic Plan
  A report that describes steps taken by the National Institutes of Health to implement the scientific recommendations made by the Diabetes Research Working Group, an independent, nongovernmental panel of experts.
  
  
• Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)
  A completed NIH study that showed how tight control of blood glucose can prevent complications in those with type 1 diabetes.
  
  
• Diabetes Prevention Program
  A completed NIH study that showed that people who follow a low-fat, low-calorie diet and who exercise 30 minutes a day, five times a week, have a far smaller risk of developing diabetes than these who don't.
  
  
  • Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Balance Program Materials
    
    
  • Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Change Program Materials
    
    

• Special Statutory Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes Research:
  Report on Progress & Opportunities
  A report that describes the recent achievements, ongoing collaborative projects, and future opportunities in type 1 diabetes research made possible through special Federal funding.

• The Pima Indians: Pathfinders for Health
  A booklet that describes the role of the Pima Indians in helping to understand diabetes and details NIDDK's efforts to improve clinical care and self-management practices among this group.

• Type 1 Diabetes (Thirty Years of Progress) (PDF, 60 KB) *

• Type 1 diabetes research funding and clinical trials

• Type 2 Diabetes (Thirty Years of Progress) (PDF, 84 KB) *