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How the nutrition during infancy influences the risk of getting type 1 diabetes
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As already mentioned in the last article, new studies proved that it is a great advantage to detect islet-antibodies as early as possible in order to minimize the risk for children to get type 1 diabetes. There is no doubt that not only genetic factors play a role when type 1 diabetes is developed. Statistics on illness of twins prove that environmental factors might play a significant role in the outbreak of the autoimmune reaction which leads to diabetes. (According to those statistics, only in 30% of all cases with diabetic parents both children suffered from diabetes) Therefore many studies emphasize on the search for the environmental factors supporting the development of the islet-autoimmunity and with this later type 1 diabetes.
If so, would it not be possible that in case of type 1 diabetes the nutrition in the first years - the period of time in which the first islet auto antibodies can be detected - could be an important environmental factor?
Babydiet
As its predecessor Babydiab, this study is located in Munich. Its aim is it to find out whether a directed selection of the inflow of corn during the first year can prevent the occurrence of islet-autoimmunity or type 1 diabetes.
The babydiab study incidentally developed the thesis that children who ate food containing gluten before they were four months old had a five times higher risk of getting diabetes. Today this thesis has been proved several times.
The babydiet study now investigates on the effect of food containing gluten given after the sixth month. This study covers 150 probands who all have one member in their family (a parent or a sibling) who suffers from type 1 diabetes.
When first results are published, you will find an update of this article. |
TRIGR
A further field of this problematic topic is the contradictory information on the consumption of milk or baby food containing milk in the context of the development of type 1 diabetes. The study "Trial to Reduce Diabetes in the Genetically At-Risk" (TRIGR) was supposed to clear this question. It started in Finland (TRIGR 1) and has been widened on 17 countries and 8000 probands. The probands are fed with hydrolysate-nutrition (nutramigen) after the nursing period of the first six months. Nutramigen does not contain intact heterologous protein.
Children who had only been nursed during the first half year will get the special nourishment 2 more months (until including the 8. month). In this period (6.-8. month) the children who are in the control groups receive normal baby food.
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NIP
According to some epidemiological studies the application of n-3-fatty acids included in fish oil during pregnancy and the first months afterwards might protect from type 1 diabetes. Researches now concentrate on how far this suspicion might be utilized for medical purpose by giving docosahexaeonic acid (DHA). The study covers 90 children and first results should be delivered in 3 years time.
The prevention of type 1 diabetes has been moved further in these 3 studies. Although they only concentrate on first-grade relatives of diabetics and the HLA genotypes associated with diabetes. A further step would be a widely laid out study among the whole population
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source: Dr. Sandra Hummel, Anette Ziegler. Typ-1-Diabetes: Beeinflusst die frühkindliche Ernährung das Risiko?. MedReport Nr. 16 / 29. year 2005, p.4
Translated by Jella Eifler |
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