Informative Diabetes Website

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Continuing the discussion from MODY with Antibodies?:

@Brian_BSC

@Jenny

That makes sense. I also wonder whether we will see more Type 2style IR in Type 1s now that there are so very many more of them.

It shocks me how rare Type 1 was 50 years ago. I only met one back when I knew literally hundreds of people my age. Now quite a few of my neighbors have relatives who have it–and neighbors are sparse in my rural region.

Dan Hurley in Diabetes Rising examines the observed rise in prevalence rates. He notes that part of it could be due to better diagnoses (i.e. we now diagnose LADA), this is one reason that people argue that there is no Autism explosion, it is simply more people getting diagnosed. But then Hurley then goes through explores a variety of other potential connections which might be part of the rise in T1 rates. It is all basically epidemiological, and most of them have to do with environmental stuff like diet and toxins. But it is plausible and worth of being explored.

Found this website while reading about the rise of both T1 and T2 diabetes, lots of good information in general and links to research and studies.

Diabetes and The Environment