Research News From October 8, 2006
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- The Burden of Diabetes Mellitus Among US Youth: Prevalence Estimates From the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. See also Study Finds One in 523 Children and Adolescents Have Diabetes.
- ABC News has two online videos about the recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (International Trial of the Edmonton Protocol for Islet Transplantation): Summary of the Study and Interview with Dr. Camillo Ricordi from the DRI.
- Therapy with the hsp60 peptide DiaPep277(TM) in C-peptide positive type 1 diabetes patients. See also The Swedish GAD-vaccination Trial: Outcomes of a Phase II Safety and Efficacy Trial with Diamyd(TM) for Preservation of Beta Cell Function in Children with Type 1 Diabetes.
- Dietary insulin as an immunogen and tolerogen.
- Is affluence a risk factor for bronchial asthma and type 1 diabetes?
- Type 1 diabetes risk assessment: improvement by follow-up measurements in young islet autoantibody-positive relatives.
- Role of seasonal factors in pre- and postnatal ontogenesis for etiology of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Short-term suppression of elevated growth hormone concentrations following insulin-like growth factor 1 administration in young adults with type 1 diabetes does not alter glomerular filtration or albumin excretion rates.
- Is arterial hyepertension a significant problem in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes?
- Diabetes mellitus and risk of bladder cancer: a meta-analysis.
- Genome-wide scan for type 1 diabetic nephropathy in the Finnish population reveals suggestive linkage to a single locus on chromosome 3q.
- Beverage Intake Among Preschool Children and Its Effect on Weight Status. Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats.
