
One in Six Billion
A podcast about diabetes and genes hosted by Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd.
Podcasting since 2023 • 38 episodes
One in Six Billion
Latest Episodes
Series 3 Episode 14: Farah O'Regan and Matt Johnson. Down syndrome and very young onset diabetes
Farah O'Regan talks about how her son who had Down syndrome and a severe congenital heart condition needing surgery diagnosed in pregnancy and then developed Type 1 diabetes on day 2 of life. In early childhood he was diagnosed with 2 mor...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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Series 3 Episode 13. Abby Gardener and Tim Barrett. Wolfram syndrome / WFS1 Spectrum disorder
Abby Gardener describes how she was diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome after developing both insulin-treated diabetes and diabetes insipidus (when the urine cannot concentrate) and how this has impacted her life. Professor Tim Barrett talks ...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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34:53

Series 3 Episode 12. Cassi Connelly. Familial Partial Lipodystrophy
Cassi Connelly talks about her experience of having familial partial lipodystrophy characterised by a loss of fat and muscular appearance of her arms and legs. She had multiple medical problems including diabetes for decades before the diagnosi...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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36:01

Series 3 Episode 11. Rebecca Goodman. Living well with Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Rebecca Goodman talks to Andrew and Maggie about what it is like to grow up with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Features of Bardet-Biedl syndrome include extra fingers and toes, progressive blindness, kidney problems, obesity due to an uncontrolled app...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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29:14

Special episode 5. John Dennis. Research breakthrough in Type 2 diabetes treatment.
We talk to John Dennis, a data science researcher working in the University of Exeter. He used data from 1 million people with Type 2 diabetes to discover how the clinical characteristics of a patient alter the glucose lowering with different t...
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Season 3
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