Body clocks and diagnosing type 1 diabetes

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Our body clock (circadian rhythm) affects many systems in the body: the sleep/wake cycle and body temperature. But it also has a striking effect on showing or masking susceptibility to disease and illness such as type 1 diabetes. With 340,000 people living with the condition in the UK, early identification and monitoring is essential.

Join Cardiff researchers Dr James Pearson (PhD 2014) and PhD student Katie Boest-Bjerg (BSc 2022) as they unravel how the body clock affects identification of type 1 diabetes in those at-risk, at different types of day, and how their work aims to improve identification of people at risk of the condition, to keep them healthy and safe.