It doesn’t define how or why this occurs, but interesting, nonetheless…
The study reveals many young people in Africa, and some in the U.S., may have a non-autoimmune form of type 1 diabetes, opening the door to more accurate diagnosis and treatment
When the researchers compared this data to studies in the U.S., they found a smaller but significant proportion (15%) of Black participants diagnosed with T1D had a similar form of diabetes found in Sub-Saharan Africa - characterized by negative autoantibodies and a low T1D genetic risk score.