News from SDCC

​The Danish Diabetes Academy (DDA) and the Prevention Research Group at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) recently held a one-day seminar on the prevention of type 2 diabetes in woman who have suffered from gestational diabetes.

​Research Manager Ingrid Willaing elected as vice-chairperson of the PSAD study group - a European group studying the psychosocial aspects of diabetes.

​Researchers at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) have been nominated by ‘Københavns Kongres og Event Award’ for the award for best congress in 2016.

Birgitte Brock, Chief Physician at Aarhus University Hospital, is to join Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen as its new head of research 

​Longer period without serious kidney and cardiovascular diseases.  This is the main conclusion in Jens Øllgaard’s PhD study, which is also the final follow-up to the Steno-2 study that commenced in 1993.

​Researchers from Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) present data from a major international registry study during the American Heart Congress at the American College of Cardiology.

The four acute care hospitals in the region, as well as Rigshospitalet and Bornholms Hospital have now signed ’Steno Partner agreements’ with Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC). The agreements set the framework for future cooperation on improving diabetes treatment in the region.

The current head of the Centre For Diabetes Research at Herlev Gentofte Hospital, Tina Vilsbøll, is to take over as head of the clinic at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen.

On 1 January, Steno Diabetes Center was transferred to the Capital Region of Denmark to become part of a new diabetes centre that is to raise the bar for initiatives for people with diabetes from the entire capital region.

​A long-term Danish follow-up study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) now shows that intensified and multifaceted treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes and a common complication microalbuminuria extends median lifetime by 8 years.