One in Six Billion

<p>Chris Bright was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes aged 8 but this did not stop him having a very successful football career including playing international futsal for Wales. He describes the challenges he faced and how...

<p>First steps in delaying adult-onset Type 1 diabetes</p><p>When Hannah Robinson was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and found to have islet auto-antibodies she was recognised as being on the path to future Type 1...

<p>Dr Rachel Besser explains how new treatment options means it is now important to identify children before they get symptomatic Type 1 diabetes. Rachel is working to make sure testing for risk of Type 1 diabetes is...

<p>Richard Oram explains how recent advances have meant we can now delay type 1 diabetes with immunotherapy. To do this we need to be able to identify people at very high risk of developing Type 1 diabetes. Richard...

<p>Jennifer and her mother Helen explain how being born Prader Willi syndrome has had a lifelong impact. One challenge is that Jennifer is continually hungry, and so limiting access to food is needed at all times...

<p>Professor Maggie Shepherd reflects back on her career and how she made the massive steps from being a clinical nurse to becoming a nationally leading researcher and educator.</p><p>Send us a text</p>

<p>Andrew Hattersley describes how teamwork and mutual support has helped the Exeter diabetes research team expand and flourish over the past 30 years</p><p>Send us a text</p>

<p>Grace Bervoets talks about living with cystic fibrosis and cystic fibrosis related-diabetes. Amanada Stride, who works as a diabetes consultant helping people with cystic fibrosis related-diabetes, explains the many...

<p>Tom Staniford talks about living with the MDP syndrome, an extremely rare genetic condition. MDP syndrome includes Mandibula hypoplasia, Deafness, and Progeroid features amongst its widespread features. Tom developed...

<p>Farah O'Regan talks about how her son who had Down syndrome and a severe congenital heart condition needing surgery diagnosed in pregnancy and then developed Type 1 diabetes on day 2 of life. In early childhood he...

<p>Abby Gardener describes how she was diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome after developing both insulin-treated diabetes and diabetes insipidus (when the urine cannot concentrate) and how this has impacted her life...

<p>Cassi Connelly talks about her experience of having familial partial lipodystrophy characterised by a loss of fat and muscular appearance of her arms and legs. She had multiple medical problems including diabetes for...

<p>Rebecca Goodman talks to Andrew and Maggie about what it is like to grow up with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Features of Bardet-Biedl syndrome include extra fingers and toes, progressive blindness, kidney problems...

<p>We talk to John Dennis, a data science researcher working in the University of Exeter. He used data from 1 million people with Type 2 diabetes to discover how the clinical characteristics of a patient alter the...

<p>Julie Reynolds describes how she gradually lost her hearing in her 30’s and developed diabetes in her 40’s these 2 conditions also developed in in her mother, her children and other maternal relative. This led to a...