Your Voice Drives Change

When people living with type 1 diabetes share their experiences, those insights help shape research, improve care, and strengthen outcomes across the community.

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Built With the T1D Community

T1D Exchange is a nonprofit built with, by, and for people directly impacted by T1D. Together, we turn lived experience into real-world impact.

23,000+T1D Exchange Registry
People with T1D participate in research through our registry.
75,000+People Impacted by T1D
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~350T1D Exchange Studies
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Together, these experiences help researchers understand what life with type 1 diabetes actually looks like — and what needs to improve.

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The T1D Exchange Registry makes it easy to share your perspectives through surveys and take part in research that expands what we know about living with type 1 diabetes. 

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Latest Articles

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Hypoglycemia

Is It 'Just a Low'? What Actually Counts as a Severe Hypoglycemic Event

It’s 2 AM when Maria’s low glucose alarm wakes her partner. Maria is awake, but something isn’t right. She knows she needs the glucose tab on her nightstand, but she’s too shaky. When trying to ask for help, her speech is garbled. Her partner steps in, hands her the tabs, but she is too foggy to open the package herself. Thankfully, he opens the tabs and helps her take them.

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What are ketones?
Ketone Monitoring

What are Ketones? Your Body’s Early Warning Signal, Explained

This article was reviewed by Jennifer L. Sherr, MD, PhD.

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Delaying Stage 3 Diabetes
Diabetes Research

Delaying Stage 3 Type 1 Diabetes: What’s on the Horizon

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) starts long before symptoms appear. Today, we can detect early-stage T1D by testing for autoantibodies in the blood. Autoantibodies tell us that beta cells have been damaged by the immune system.

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Why Your Voice Matters

Living with type 1 diabetes means making decisions every day.

 

Those real experiences help researchers understand what truly matters to people living with diabetes and their families.

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Make your voice heard. Support the type 1 diabetes community. Drive research that matters.
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