Good News: Artificial Pancreas offers new hope for Type 2 Diabetes

Over the years, research has shown that people from Black African, African Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are more likely than their white peers to develop Type 2 diabetes and from a younger age. Some of the risk factors can be managed, whilst others are outside of our control, but either way, it’s a medical condition many in these communities end up trying to manage.

Currently that means jabs, it means insulin pumps, it means carefully tracking every single thing they eat. But new research out of Cambridge could be about to change this.

Cambridge University just completed a successful trial of an artificial pancreas which they say not only helps Type 2 diabetic patients better manage their blood sugar levels, but also doubled the duration of time that patients’ blood sugar levels were on target, and reduced by 50% the time they spent with blood sugar that was too high.

And the even bigger news is, the NHS have already approved it for use in patients. This is a totally automatic device and there’s no need to tell it what you’re about to eat, the device predicts the insulin you need, removing the need for any self jabbing.

Could this be the start of a whole new life for the diabetic community?