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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Could a capsule of insulin crystals a day stop the development of type 1 diabetes? There are indications that this could be the case. In the international TrialNet study*, which follows relatives of individuals with type 1 diabetes, researchers are investigating whether oral insulin could prevent or delay the disease.
Type 1 diabetes is the autoimmune form of diabetes, in which the patients? insulin-producing beta cells are destroyed by their own immune system.
?We know that if a person has two autoantibodies and one of them is against insulin, there is a 50 per cent risk that they will develop type 1 diabetes within five years. It doesn?t matter how old you are?, says ?ke Lernmark, Professor of Experimental Diabetes Research at Lund University in Sweden.
?There are indications that oral insulin may prevent or delay the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes among individuals with autoantibodies against insulin, who are thus in the risk zone?, says ?ke Lernmark, who will be initiating and coordinating the Swedish TrialNet study.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metabolic-problems/32318-Stop-diabetes-with-insulin-tablets.html
Type 1 diabetes is the autoimmune form of diabetes, in which the patients? insulin-producing beta cells are destroyed by their own immune system.
?We know that if a person has two autoantibodies and one of them is against insulin, there is a 50 per cent risk that they will develop type 1 diabetes within five years. It doesn?t matter how old you are?, says ?ke Lernmark, Professor of Experimental Diabetes Research at Lund University in Sweden.
?There are indications that oral insulin may prevent or delay the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes among individuals with autoantibodies against insulin, who are thus in the risk zone?, says ?ke Lernmark, who will be initiating and coordinating the Swedish TrialNet study.
http://www.healthcanal.com/metabolic-problems/32318-Stop-diabetes-with-insulin-tablets.html
