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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
MINI-EPIDEMICS of type 1 diabetes appear to be occurring among Australian children every five years, a landmark study that points to an environmental cause of the autoimmune disease shows.
The study found that type 1 diabetes, a condition that occurs when the body's immune system seems to spontaneously attack and kill the cells that produce insulin, has also been inexplicably increasing by more than 2 per cent every year.
The researchers reviewed every new case of type 1 diabetes in Western Australia over 25 years, finding that while the illness was on the rise, it was doing so with an even flow of peaks and troughs.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nat...ink-to-viruses-and-toxins-20120812-242sc.html
The study found that type 1 diabetes, a condition that occurs when the body's immune system seems to spontaneously attack and kill the cells that produce insulin, has also been inexplicably increasing by more than 2 per cent every year.
The researchers reviewed every new case of type 1 diabetes in Western Australia over 25 years, finding that while the illness was on the rise, it was doing so with an even flow of peaks and troughs.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nat...ink-to-viruses-and-toxins-20120812-242sc.html