Dr. Rinku Mehra hosts the Endo Kids Podcast and interviews pediatrician Dr. Herb Bravo, who works with Sanofi’s type 1 diabetes clinical research programs, about advances in type 1 diabetes care, early detection, and emerging therapies. Dr. Bravo describes the trauma and dangers of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), emphasizing that many children present in DKA without parents knowing the warning signs. The episode explains that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease with a long asymptomatic period and discusses screening with commercially available autoantibody tests (e.g., through LabCorp/Quest), TrialNet, and the Barbara Davis Center’s ASK study, including risk implications of having one versus two confirmed autoantibodies and the potential to prevent most DKA cases through earlier identification. They discuss who might be screened (especially tho ...