The COVID-19 Symptom Tracker app has been developed by scientists at King’s College London and health science company ZOE.

Previous research in China and Italy has indicated that people with diabetes are more likely to be among those who experience more severe complications from coronavirus

It’s never easy living with any type of diabetes. But we know right now many will be especially worried about their own or a loved ones’ health.

We’re supporting these projects thanks to the diabetes Clinical Studies Groups (CSGs).

The team at the University of Exeter have shown for the first time that children who were diagnosed at younger ages can’t process insulin properly and their insulin-producing beta cells are destroyed rapidly.

We know that if you have repeated hypos, you’re more likely to stop noticing when you go low. But we don’t yet fully understand why people lose their ability to sense hypos.

In 2015, Diabetes UK and JDRF came together to establish the Type 1 Immunotherapy Consortium, led by Professor Colin Dayan at Cardiff University.

Hypo unawareness is a condition that affects some people with type 1 diabetes that makes it hard to know when your blood sugar levels fall dangerously low. If you’re unaware of hypos, you can't treat them quickly when they occur to get back into a safer blood sugar range.