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Research: Causes and Prevention

I am a diabetic, having been diagnosed with Type 1 at age 36. All my doctors are confused. Is it possible that I got diabetes from a drug I may have been given in the past, or stress I may have undergone?

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Are non-US nationals eligible for the DPT-1 study?

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Is there any documentation or other professional opinions or evidence to substantiate the idea that type 2 diabetes may be brought on by acute physical trauma?

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I am an active duty US Army soldier in the combat field who developed (presumably type 1) diabetes, about six months after my enlistment. Being 18 and having no family history of the disease, could my diabetes have been caused by anything the Army had subjected me to?

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Both my parents have been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. They are both overweight and take little, if any, exercise. What are the chances of my developing the disease? Is there anything that I can do to help prevent the onset of the disease?

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I have a nine month old daughter who is starting to eat table foods, and I am wondering about dairy products. I am breastfeeding her and do not plan on giving her cow’s milk to drink until after the age 12 months. Because she had low blood sugar and jaundice at birth, we supplemented her with formula for about one and a half weeks, and I am worried that this little bit of formula greatly increased her risk for type 1 diabetes.

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My 72 year old mother, who is very obese and has syndrome X, claims she read an article published by a major research institute that says diabetes may be caused by environmental factors such as pollution. I believe she is in a bit of denial. I have searched many places on the Internet and cannot find anything about environment and pollution as possible causes of diabetes. Can you help direct me to anything she might be talking about?

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As we evaluate the option to allow my son to be randomized into the DPT-1 study, we struggle with two issues. First, are there other diabetes prevention studies we should be evaluating? Second is there info and advice on the psychological impacts of taking a healthy kid and putting him/her through lots of blood work, daily medications, and potential annual hospitalization?

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I am 31 and my husband is 30. He has been a diabetic for eleven years. He has told me that he became a diabetic because he had strep throat in college and it went untreated for so long that the strep virus destroyed his pancreas.

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My husband has Type 1 diabetes and our 2 children are 7 and 4 years old. They do not have diabetes as of yet. I’d like to know the very latest status on the theoretical risk between cows’ milk in early childhood.

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