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People with a high risk of type 1 diabetes who don’t have symptoms can now get screened to see if they are in the early stages of the condition. <\/p>\n<p>Screening for type 1 diabetes identifies if someone has certain <strong>autoantibodies<\/strong>, immune cells that attack the body’s insulin-making cells. Blood sugar levels will also be checked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"dfe-image dfe-image__large\">\n<div class=\"image-container fluid aspect-ratio-16-9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/diabetes\/media\/images\/2025\/11\/Type-1-stages.png\" alt=\"Stage 1 you have 2 or autoantibodies, normal blood sugar, and no symptoms. Stage 2 you have 2 or more autoantibodies, high blood sugar, and no symptoms. Stage 3 you have 2 or more autoantibodies, high blood sugar, and symptoms are present.\"\/><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"dfe-image-caption\" id=\"caption-79997-695d1c72cf5b8\">Staging for type 1 diabetes.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dfe-section\" data-section=\"cdc_generic_section_2\">\n\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editor-block--title\" id=\"heading-3bijogsdno\">New medicine<\/h2>\n<p>Teplizumab is a new medicine that can slow down the development of type 1 diabetes autoantibodies. This can delay type 1 diabetes symptoms, as well as the need for blood sugar monitoring and insulin injections. It’s given as a daily intravenous (IV) infusion for 14 days. <\/p>\n<p>Teplizumab is for people with stage 2 type 1 diabetes who are 8 years and older to prevent progression to stage 3, which is when symptoms appear. Once a person has progressed to stage 3, teplizumab is not effective. <\/p>\n<p>This medication can be very expensive without health insurance coverage. 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People with a high risk of type 1 diabetes who don’t have symptoms can now get screened to see if they are in the early stages of the condition. <\/p>\n<p>Screening for type 1 diabetes identifies if someone has certain <strong>autoantibodies<\/strong>, immune cells that attack the body’s insulin-making cells. Blood sugar levels will also be checked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"dfe-image dfe-image__large\">\n<div class=\"image-container fluid aspect-ratio-16-9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/diabetes\/media\/images\/2025\/11\/Type-1-stages.png\" alt=\"Stage 1 you have 2 or autoantibodies, normal blood sugar, and no symptoms. Stage 2 you have 2 or more autoantibodies, high blood sugar, and no symptoms. Stage 3 you have 2 or more autoantibodies, high blood sugar, and symptoms are present.\"\/><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"dfe-image-caption\" id=\"caption-79997-695d1c72cf5b8\">Staging for type 1 diabetes.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dfe-section\" data-section=\"cdc_generic_section_2\">\n\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editor-block--title\" id=\"heading-3bijogsdno\">New medicine<\/h2>\n<p>Teplizumab is a new medicine that can slow down the development of type 1 diabetes autoantibodies. This can delay type 1 diabetes symptoms, as well as the need for blood sugar monitoring and insulin injections. It’s given as a daily intravenous (IV) infusion for 14 days. <\/p>\n<p>Teplizumab is for people with stage 2 type 1 diabetes who are 8 years and older to prevent progression to stage 3, which is when symptoms appear. Once a person has progressed to stage 3, teplizumab is not effective. <\/p>\n<p>This medication can be very expensive without health insurance coverage. However, you may be eligible for a copay assistance program called Compass, which may cover the cost of the medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dfe-section\" data-section=\"cdc_generic_section_3\">\n\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editor-block--title\" id=\"heading-5ewke5bkis\">Medical advances<\/h2>\n<p>Teplizumab is the first major treatment option for people with type 1 diabetes since insulin therapy was invented over 100 years ago. Medical research is underway to discover new medicines and technologies to manage type 1 diabetes. Scientists have made progress in recent years to discover a cure for type 1 diabetes. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"container page-mobile-bar\"> <br \/>\n\t\t\t<time class=\"page-mobile-bar__item page-mobile-bar__item--date\" datetime=\"2025-09-29 00:00:00\"> <br \/>\n\t\t\tSept. 29, 2025\t\t<\/time> <br \/>\n\t<\/section>\n<div class=\"page-content-sources noindex\">\n<div id=\"content-sources\" class=\"page-content-sources__body accordion-collapse collapse\">\n<div class=\"callout callout-content-source\" role=\"status\">\n<p>Content Source:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tNational Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Diabetes\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"container related-pages related-pages__mobile\"> <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <br \/>\n<\/main> <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>\t <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n<\/body> \n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Early Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes | Diabetes | CDC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/type-1-diabetes-early-treatment-thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}