Diabetes Guidelines

Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines are the only comprehensive set of clinical recommendations for children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes worldwide!  Authors include experts from across the globe and a chapter on limited care for developing healthcare systems has also been developed.

Guideline Chapters

Editorial: ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2022: What is New in Diabetes Care?
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Chapter 1: Definition, epidemiology, and classification of diabetes in children and adolescents

Ingrid Libman, Aveni Haynes, Sarah Lyons, Praveen Pradeep, Edson Rwagasor, Joanna Yuet-ling Tung, Craig A Jefferies, Richard A Oram, Dana Dabelea and Maria E. Craig

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Chapter 2: Stages of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents

Rachel E J Besser, Kirstine J Bell, Jenny J Couper, Anette-G Ziegler, Diane K Wherrett, Mikael Knip, Cate Speake, Kristina Casteels, Kimberly A. Driscoll, Laura Jacobsen, Maria E Craig, Michael J Haller

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Chapter 3: Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents

Amy S Shah, Philip S Zeitler, Jencia Wong, Alexia S Pena, Brandy Wicklow, Silva Arslanian, Nancy Chang, Junfen Fu, Preeti Dabadghao, Orit Pinhas- Hamiel, Tatsuhiko Urakami, Maria E Craig

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Chapter 4: The diagnosis and management of monogenic diabetes in children and adolescents

Siri Atma W. Greeley, Michel Polak, Pål R Njølstad, Fabrizio Barbetti, Rachel Williams, Luis Castano, Klemens Raile, Dung Vu Chi, Abdelhadi Habeb, Andrew T. Hattersley, Ethel Codner

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Chapter 5: Management of Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes in children and adolescents

Ode KL, Ballman M, Battezzati A, Brennan A, Chan CL, Hameed S, Ismail H, Kelly A, Moran AM, Rabasa-Lhoret, R, Saxby NA, Craig M

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Chapter 6: Diabetes Education in children and adolescents

Anna Lindholm Olinder, Matthew DeAbreu, Stephen Greene, Anne Haugstvedt, Karin Lange, Edna S. Majaliwa, Vanita Pais, Julie Pelicand, Marissa Town, Farid Mahmud

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Chapter 7: The Delivery of ambulatory diabetes care to children and adolescents with diabetes

Catarina Limbert, Davide Tinti, Faisal Malik, Ioanna Kosteria, Laurel Messer, Yazid
Muhammad Jalaludin, Paul Benitez-Aguirre, Sarah Biester, Sarah Corathers, Simone von
Sengbusch, Loredana Marcovecchio

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Chapter 8: Glycemic targets and glucose monitoring for children, adolescents, and young people with diabetes

Martin de Bock, Ethel Codner, Maria E Craig, Tony Huynh, David M. Maahs, Farid H. Mahmud, Loredana Marcovecchi, Linda DiMeglio

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Chapter 9: Insulin treatment in children and adolescents with diabetes

Eda Cengiz, Thomas Danne, Tariq Ahmad, Ahila Ayyavoo, David Beran, Sarah Ehtisham, Jan Fairchild, Przemyslawa Jarosz-Chobot, May Ng, Megan Paterson, Ethel Codner

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Chapter 10: Nutritional management in children and adolescents with diabetes

S. Francesca Annan, Laurie A. Higgins, Elisabeth Jelleryd, Tamara Hannon, Shelley Rose, Sheryl Salis, Juliana Baptista, Paula Chinchilla, M. Loredana Marcovecchio

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Chapter 11: Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State

Nicole Glaser, Maria Fritsch, Leena Priyambada, Arleta Rewers, Valentino Cherubini, Sylvia Estrada, Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, Ethel Codner

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Chapter 12: Assessment and management of hypoglycemia in children and adolescents with diabetes

Mary B Abraham, Beate Karges, Klemen Dovc, Diana Naranjo, Ana Maria Arbelaez, Joyce Mbogo, Ganesh Jevalikar, Timothy W. Jones, Farid H. Mahmud

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Chapter 13: Sick day management in children and adolescents with diabetes

Helen Phelan, Ragnar Hanas, Sabine E. Hofer, Steven James, Alanna Landry, Warren Lee,
Jamie R. Wood, Ethel Codner

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Chapter 14: Exercise in children and adolescents with diabetes

Peter Adolfsson, Craig E. Taplin, Dessi P. Zaharieva, John Pemberton, Elizabeth A. Davis, Michael C. Riddell, Jonathan McGavock, Othmar Moser, Agnieszka Szadkowska, Prudence Lopez, Jeerunda Santiprabhob, Elena Frattolin, Gavin Griffiths, and Linda A. DiMeglio

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Chapter 15: Psychological care of children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes

Maartje de Wit, Katarzyna A. Gajewska, Vincent McDarby, Xiaolei Zhao, Given Hapunda, Eveline R. Goethals, Alan Delamater, Linda DiMeglio 

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Chapter 16: Diabetes Technologies: Glucose monitoring

Martin Tauschman, Gregory Forlenza, Korey Hood, Roque Cardona-Hernandez, Elisa Giani, Christel Hendrieckx, Daniel J. DeSalvo, Lori M Laffel, Banshi Saboo, Benjamin J Wheeler, Dmitry N Latpev, Iroro Yarhere, Linda A. DiMeglio

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Chapter 17: Diabetes Technologies - Insulin Delivery

Jennifer L. Sherr, Melissa Schoelwer, Tiago Jeronimo Dos Santos, Leenatha Reddy, Torben Biester, Alfonso Galderisi, Jacobus van Dyk, Marisa E. Hilliard, Cari Berget, Linda A. DiMeglio

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Chapter 18: Microvascular and macrovascular complications in children and adolescents

Petter Bjornstad, Allison Dart, Kim C. Donaghue, Axel Dost, Eva L. Feldman, Gavin S. Tan, R. Paul Wadwa, Bedowra Zabeen, M. Loredana Marcovecchio

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Chapter 19: Other complications and associated conditions in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Farid H Mahmud, Nancy S Elbarbary, Elke Fröhlich-Reiterer, Reinhard W Holl, Olga Kordonouri, Mikael Knip, Kimber Simmons and Maria E Craig

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Chapter 20: Management and support of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in school

Natasa Bratina, Gun Forsander, Francesca Annan, Tim Wysocki, Jessica Pierce, Luis Eduardo Calliari, Danièle Pacaud, Peter Adolfsson, Klemen Dovč, Angie Middlehurst, Peter Goss, Jennifer Goss, Staffan Janson and Carlo L. Acerini

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Chapter 21: Diabetes Technologies

Jennifer L Sherr, Martin Tauschmann, Tadej Battelino, Martin de Bock, Gregory Forlenza, Rossana Roman, Korey Hood and David M Maahs

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Chapter 22: Introduction to the Limited Care Guidance Appendix

Ethel Codner, Carlo Acerini, Maria E Craig, Sabine Hofer and David Maahs

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Chapter 23: Limited Care Guidance Appendix

Ethel Codner, Carlo Acerini, Maria E Craig, Sabine Hofer and David Maahs

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Additional Chapter - (published July 20, 2017): Managing diabetes in preschool children

Sundberg S, Barnard K, Cato A, de Beaufort C, DiMeglio L, Dooley G, Hershey T, Hitchcock J, Jain V, Weissberg-Benchell J, Rami-Merhar B, Smart C, Hanas R

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Additional Chapter - (published October 28, 2019): Fasting during Ramadan by young people with diabetes

Asma Deeb, Nancy Elbarbary, Carmel E Smart, Salem A Beshyah, Abdelhadi Habeb, Sanjay Kalra, Ibrahim Al Alwan,  Amir Babiker, Reem Al Amoudi, Aman Bhakti Pulungan, Khadija Humayun, Umer Issa,
Mohamed Yazid Jalaludin, Rakesh Sanhay, Zhanay Akanov, Lars Krogvold, Carine de Beaufort

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