The Impact of Early Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) Therapy on Diabetes Control and Comorbidities, and Cost-effectiveness of AID Treatment

Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Drug: Multiple daily injections of insulin; Device: Omnipod 5

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT07423637

HelDiabKids_AID

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of early initiated automated insulin de-livery (AID) treatment in type diabetes in children aged 7-16 years to glycemic control, diabe-tes distress of patients and caregivers, long-term micro- and macrovascular complications and cost-effectiveness compared to multiple daily injections (MDI) and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The immediate costs of AID therapy are higher than costs of multiple daily injection therapy, and there has been debate whether the more expensive AID therapy is justified. No research on the cost-effectiveness of AID use in children has been conducted so far in Finland, and there is generally very little research data on the long-term treatment of type 1 diabetes with AID systems. AID therapy has been studied from the point of diagno-sis of type 1 diabetes in two centers (USA and the UK) but from the perspective of maintain-ing subject's own insulin secretion. A long-term randomized and controlled study on the out-comes and cost-effectiveness of AID therapy, started from diagnosis of diabetes, is essential to create evidence-based data for optimizing current treatment recommendations.

Our hypothesis is that AID treatment keeps the glycemic outcomes in targets in the long term and decreases diabetes distress. During longer time, AID system decreases the amount of micro- and macrovascular complications and is cost-effective treatment for children with type 1 diabetes (CwT1D).

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children and adolescents aged 7-15 years who are re-cently (within a month) diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the Children's and Adolescents' Unit of HUH at the New Children's Hospital and Jorvi Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Addison's disease
• Renal failure
• Untreated coeliac disease
• Untreated thyroid disorder
• Poorly controlled asthma, per investigator judgment.
• Unresolved adverse skin conditions in the area of sensor placement (e.g. pso-riasis, rash, Staphylococcus infection).
• Participating in an investigational study (drug or device) wherein he/she has received treatment from an investigational study drug or device in the last 2 weeks before enrollment into this study, as per investigator judgment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Early AID-treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Automated insulin delivery system (Omnipod 5) is initiated after T1D diagnosis. Omnipod5 uses a SmartAdjust™ closed-loop algorithm to automate insulin delivery. Algorithm continuously predicts glucose trends and self-adjusts insulin delivery within safety boundaries. Continious glucose monitoring (CGM) is used.

Treatment:

Device: Omnipod 5

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Multiple daily insulin injections (MDI) is initiated after T1D with a standard treatment protocol. Continious glucose monitoring (CGM) is used.

Treatment:

Drug: Multiple daily injections of insulin