Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
TAMPA - Five-year-old Hillary Platz is learning to manage her Type 1 diabetes. Diagnosed a year ago, she and her mom manage how much insulin to deliver through a pump by checking her blood sugar
With no family history, mom wanted to find out where the diabetes came from, and if her three-year-old, Emma, was also at risk. She enrolled herself and Emma in an ongoing clinical trial at USF.
The first phase is to use blood work to identify whether family members are also at risk. Heather Platz said, ?We were both tested for the presence of auto-antibodies that are linked to type one and they tested for five. I came back with two, her father had none, and Emma, her little sister, had all five.?
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/ne...-study-to-find-if-siblings-are-at-higher-risk
With no family history, mom wanted to find out where the diabetes came from, and if her three-year-old, Emma, was also at risk. She enrolled herself and Emma in an ongoing clinical trial at USF.
The first phase is to use blood work to identify whether family members are also at risk. Heather Platz said, ?We were both tested for the presence of auto-antibodies that are linked to type one and they tested for five. I came back with two, her father had none, and Emma, her little sister, had all five.?
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/ne...-study-to-find-if-siblings-are-at-higher-risk