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Research: Causes and Prevention

We live in a small town, and several children (including my daughter) and at least one adult have all developed type 1 diabetes in the last two years. Is this significant? Is there any information on children who develop type 1 diabetes in the same neighborhood and small town with in two years of each other?

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I was monitored for gestational diabetes whilst pregnant with my now four year old son. Is there any research to say that he could develop diabetes?

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Can diabetes cause pancreatic cancer? Can pancreatic cancer cause diabetes? My mother lived with diabetes for many years. At the age of 57, she became very ill, and after many test was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Three months after her diagnosis, she died.

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I have a friend from Cuba who contracted type 1 diabetes around the same time as his town was exposed to a chemical toxin from an accident in a nearby factory. Is it possible that the toxin was responsible in some way for the type 1 diabetes?

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My 16 year old son was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and he’s shown increasing symptoms since Christmas. A few weeks before Christmas, we used a strong pesticide on household carpets to kill domestic fleas. Could this have triggered his diabetes?

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I have had type 2 diabetes for two years. Eleven years ago, I had breast implants because of breast cancer in my family, and I seem to remember something on the pre-op papers about the possibility of developing autoimmune problems. Is there any connection between developing type 2 diabetes and having breast implants?

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Another person and I were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, but the doctors have no idea how we got it. Neither of us have a family history, and we are both in prime health. However both of us were subject to misuse of dieting while we were growing up. How many cases are out there where no one can explain how someone got type 1 diabetes?

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Do food allergies or ITP put my son in a higher risk group for developing type 1 diabetes? Is there a considerable connection from the food allergies and ITP to type 1 diabetes?

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Our three year old has type 1, so his eight year old brother asked to be checked. His blood sugar was somewhat elevated and he tested positive for GAD-65 antibodies. We were told to wait for more symptoms. How can we delay the onset of diabetes?

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We have two sons with type 1, yet their two sisters do not have it. Why did the boys get diabetes and not the girls? Are the underlying causes of type 1 diabetes known?

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