TeddyBook

TEDDY (The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young)

TEDDY Book is a research data collection tool for subjects currently participating in a NIH-funded international research study about type 1 diabetes called The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young, or TEDDY. You may use this app if you are already enrolled in the TEDDY study. TEDDY is not currently enrolling new subjects. The information that is submitted by participants comes directly to our database. You may use the TEDDY Book app along with or instead of your spiral bound TEDDY Book or TEDDY Calendar. We will discuss it with you at your next visit. Entering data into the app does not take the place of completing study visits, but we hope it makes it easier for you to record everything that happens between TEDDY visits.

The TEDDY study is an international consortium designed to find newborns that have been born with an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D) at some point during their lives. The risk is determined by a simple genetic blood test done at birth or within the first few months of life. Those babies identified at greater risk for T1D based on their genes and/or family history, are given the option to enroll in the long-term follow-up study.

The follow-up study is designed to capture information on all the possible environmental triggers that might cause a child with a high genetic risk to develop T1D. The goal of the research is to identify these triggers and engineer them into prevention or therapy strategies.