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26 experts from eight countries are behind a new international consensus on the use of glucose sensors, insulin pumps and automated insulin delivery in hospitalised pa-tients with diabetes. The aim is to make diabetes technology a more systematic part of hospital care – and give hospitals a clear framework for using it safely.

​Why do some people develop serious complications after many years with diabetes, while others do remarkably well? At a symposium at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, researchers focused on so-called ‘escapers’ – people who develop few, if any, serious complications despite living with diabetes for many years.

The largest genetic study to date of children’s blood pressure and heart rate shows that the risk of diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes can, in many cases, be traced back to childhood. These genetic footprints may now be used to improve personalised prevention in Denmark, says one of the lead researchers behind the study.​

​​​​​The two Steno Centers in Eastern Denmark will have one director from September 1. As director, Andreas Rudkjøbing will lead the preparations for a merger of the two centers.

​Erik Hageman has lived with type 1 diabetes for 83 years. In the video, he shares how he was admitted as a two-year-old to Niels Steensens Hospital (now Steno) and how it is possible to live a long and fulfilling life with diabetes.​​​​

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC) is developing a new tool designed to help identify when health professional support is needed. The tool has been named “Detektor".​​​

​The results of a new Ozempic study mark another step towards eradicating kidney disease. That is the view of Chief Physician Peter Rossing from Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC), who is a co-author of the Novo Nordisk study and helped present it at the European Renal Association (ERA) congress.​​​

​Since 2015, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (SDCC), together with the City of Copenhagen and social housing organisations, has worked to promote health and prevent type 2 diabetes in the T​​ingbjerg neighbourhood. Now the diabetes curve has been bent, and the preventive health initiative is attracting international attention.​