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I have Type 1 Diabetes
  Background to DAFNE
The DAFNE programme is based on the Intensive Insulin Therapy (ITT) education programme developed at end of the 1970s by the diabetes team at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes in Düsseldorf, Germany, led by the late Professor Michael Berger.

Professor Berger’s team showed that the education programme produced a long lasting improvement in blood glucose control without an increase in severe hypoglycaemia. The results were so impressive that since the 1980s this approach for the management of Type 1 diabetes has been widely adopted within the German healthcare system and is also widely used in other parts of Europe.

If you would like to find out more about the background to DAFNE, the work performed by Professor Berger and his team and other research carried out in Europe, you might like to read the published scientific papers. [1-10]

These papers can be ordered from either:
  Your local library
  The British Library
      http://www.bl.uk/services/documnet.htm
      Email enquiries to: dsc-customer-services@bl.uk
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