Does my child have an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes?

In Lower Saxony, all babies up to seven days old can be tested for an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, free of charge, as part of the Freder1k study. The test can be carried out in a maternity hospital or by your paediatrician.

Information on screening tests for newborns

Further information

• Children’s Hospital AUF DER BULT, Diabetes Centre for Children and Adolescents
• Campaigns around type 1 diabetes: A World Without 1

© Children’s Hospital AUF DER BULT

Study centre
Children’s Hospital AUF DER BULT,
Diabetology, Endocrinology, and General Paediatrics and Clinical Research

Contact: Janusz – Korczak – Allee 12,
30173 Hanover, Germany

Phone: 0800 – 37 33 37 15 (freephone),
E-Mail: freder1k@hka.de

Principal investigators
Professor Dr Olga Kordonouri
Professor Dr Thomas Danne

Freder1k, POInT and SINT1A study coordination
Dr Frank Roloff
Erika Marquardt

SINT1A and POInT study doctors
Dr Thekla von dem Berge
Dr Felix Reschke
Dr Jantje Weiskorn
Dr Mareike Niemeyer

SINT1A and POInT study nurse
Kerstin Semler
Sarah Landsberger

Psychological counselling
Laura Galuschka