In this Managed Healthcare Executive Between the Lines video series, Diana Brixner, Ph.D., B.Pharm., and Shira Eytan, M.D., discussed Brixner’s research into Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes diagnoses, testing for Type 1 diabetes, and creating more awareness of Type 1. Brixner is a professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and the founder of its Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center. Eytan is an endocrinologist at Park Avenue Endocrinology and an adjunct assistant professor at New York University Langone Health, both in New York.

Diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes

Eytan said that Type 1 diabetes is diagnosed when laboratory tests show the presence of two of five autoantibodies that are signs of the disease. If someone has a hemoglobin (H

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