Childhood Infection Raises Diabetes Risk

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Childhood Infection Raises Diabetes Risk
 

– Reported July 03, 2013
 

 

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Researchers from the Institute of Diabetes Research in Munich, Germany discovered that having a respiratory infection during the first three years of life may be a risk factor for type 1 diabetes. Furthermore, the risk is especially high if the infection occurs within the first year of life.

Involving 148 children with a high risk of type 1 diabetes, the study saw a link between episodes of infection and fever before the age of three years and the development of antibodies against the islet cells of the pancreas, called persistent islet autoimmunity. Knowing early childhood respiratory infections are a possible risk factor of type 1 diabetes could help to create prevention strategies.

SOURCE: JAMA Pediatrics, July 2013