Karen Addington, chief executive of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has type-one diabetes.

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In one segment a correspondent with juvenile (type 1) diabetes flies to Guatemala to see Mayan ruins.

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He died when she was 9, a year after she was diagnosed with Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.

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Your type I or juvenile-onset diabetes is due to the islet cells located in your pancreas no longer producing insulin.

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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is funding or cofunding approximately 50 trials in Type 1 diabetes, up from 5 in 2000.

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Type 1 was once commonly called juvenile diabetes mellitus because it is most commonly diagnosed in children.

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Type 1 diabetes (also called juvenile onset diabetes) is a disease in which the pancreas stops secreting insulin.

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Type 1 diabetes was once known as juvenile diabetes because it's usually diagnosed in children and young adults.

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Upwards of 1 million persons in the U.S. have type 1 diabetes, also known as insulin-dependent or juvenile-onset diabetes.

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