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Research: Causes and Prevention

My cousin’s baby girl was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age three, and my aunt’s sister (who was my mother) died of scleroderma. Could mother’s scleroderma be the cause of my cousin’ s daughter’s diabetes?

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My two and a half year old little boy was perfectly fine until out of nowhere he was suddenly was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. What causes a two and a half year old child to get type 1 diabetes? How true is it that he could have gotten his liver bruised or hurt and his liver went into shock? Is it that the pancreas that got hurt and went into shock?

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I have had type 1 diabetes since age 12, and my 10 year old son had a negative antibody test when he was three. Should this test be repeated at intervals? If so, how often?

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My daughter turned 2 a month ago. A few days after she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. At 15 days old she got the RSV virus. Is there a link to her diabetes and the RSV virus? Can a severe infection (flu or any strong virus) weaken the pancreas and cause diabetes?

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I am 41 years old and IAA and ICA positive, but IVGTT normal. What is the probability that I will develop diabetes at five years and beyond that?

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My brother, aged 24 years, was diagnosed with diabetes about 3 years ago. Can he lead a normal married life? Is diabetes hereditary? Is there any permanent cure?

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My 62 year old husband is 10 pounds overweight and has a very early stage of prostate cancer. I checked his sugar this morning and it was 130 mg/dl [7.2 mmol/L]. Could this possibly be the early stages of diabetes? Is there a connection between prostate cancer and diabetes?

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I know pancreatitis can cause diabetes, but can diabetes cause pancreatitis?

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Three weeks before my son was diagnosed with diabetes, he took steroids. I am now concerned that it was perhaps the steroids which triggered my son’s onset of diabetes and am inclined to avoid their use in my other child. Have any studies been done to examine the possible connection between steroids and the onset of diabetes in those genetically predisposed?

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I have three children, I have hypoglycemia along with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and we have family history of endocrine diseases. What is the typical time line for development of type 1 or type 2 diabetes? Are there any precursors? With a family history of endocrine diseases what, if anything, should be noted or tested for during my children’s routine physicals?

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