Parameters of oxidative stress in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and their relatives.
Oxidative stress (OS) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of the study was to compare OS parameters in diabetic children and their first-degree relatives. Fifty diabetic children from the West Bohemian Region were [...]
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Virus link to childhood diabetes. Diabetes is becoming increasingly common
UK scientists have found strong evidence suggesting that diabetes is caused by a virus.
The finding raises the possibility of developing a vaccine for the disease.
The researchers have discovered a marked difference between the way the bodies of healthy individuals and those newly diagnosed with diabetes respond [...]
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WHAT IS DIABETES?
Diabetes is a group of disorders that have in common high blood glucose (sugar) levels. People with diabetes either do not make enough insulin or do not use it properly. Insulin is a hormone from the pancreas. (A hormone is a chemical that is made in one part of the body but has [...]
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A vaccine that could help wipe out Type 1 diabetes will be tested on patients next year.
Two teams of British scientists working on the vaccine said it halts the destruction of pancreas cells that produce insulin - the hormone needed to break down sugar in the body.
“It will be of help for people who have [...]
Under the *worst* of circumstances, it results in death, or serious handicap, early in life, or in the prime of life, or prematurely in mid to late middle age.
Social security? Not much help for those who die an average of 15 years prematurely, before retirement age.
In any case, persons who have it must deal with [...]
I’m 25 years old and i have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 6
months ago.Until recently i had been able to maintain my blood glucose
to acceptable levels with diet and sports.But since 2 months my blood
glucose is higher and i find it very difficult to maintain it at
acceptable levels even if i do alot more [...]
30,000 Americans are diagnosed with type 1 every year. Only 13,000 are children. Mary Tyler Moore is an example of one person who was diagnosed with “juvenile” diabetes as an adult at the age of 30. That is one reason juvenile diabetes is now called type 1, because of misconceptions like this.
Other people diagnosed as [...]
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This is an interesting little study. (I haven’t ranked Diabetologia in the journal heirarchy, however).
Apparently the protective genes for Type 1 diabetes are not as protective as they used to be…………Also, the high risk genes for Type 1 diabetes are not as necessary– all while the incidence of Type 1 diabetes has increased 2.5 times [...]
Immune-mediated diabetes (formerly called insulin-dependent diabetes) is a disease that affects the way your body uses food. Immune-mediated diabetes is also called type 1 diabetes.
In type 1 diabetes, your body destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, usually leading to a total failure to produce insulin. It typically starts in children or young [...]
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