Registration of diabetic patients

Who can be registered?

Newly diagnosed diabetic patients fulfilling following criteria:

• under age 40 at diagnosis
• ALL types of diabetes = type 1, type 2, unclassifiable forms, secondary diabetes, gestational diabetes
• preferentially within 1 week and no later than 18 months after diagnosis
• residing in Belgium at least 6 months prior to diagnosis

How can I be registered?

The diabetologist/paediatrician registers patients at diagnosis of diabetes. There is an annual follow-up.

The complete list of participating centres is found under "Participating physicians".

What does registration imply?

• information about BDR
• written informed consent
• a blood sample for specialised tests such as diabetes-associated antibodies, genetic markers and hormones.
• filling in a questionnaire
• collected data are treated strictly confidential and stored in a secured database.

Why register?

Registration of diabetic patients is useful for following reasons:

• it allows counting the newly diagnosed patients and to follow trends
• we can determine markers in the blood that could contribute to the treatment
• we can study the evolution of diabetes after diagnosis using these markers
• the results in patients have contributed to prediction of diabetes in first degree relatives of type 1 diabetic patients
• registered patients are the first to be included in studies aiming at slowing down diabetes and beta cell transplantation