Type 1 diabetes in children also grow in Europe every year

The new cases of children's diabetes are increasing by 3.4 percent throughout Europe.If this trend continues, it would be duplicated in the next 20 years, according to the conclusions of an investigation research published in "Diabetology."

In this work, the authors coordinated by Chris Patterson, of the Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom) public health center analyzed the incidence rates by age/sex for the age group from 0 to 14 years with data from 26 European centers(representing 22 countries) that had registered the newly diagnosed people over 25 years during the period 1989-2013.

The data showed significant increases in the incidence in all but two centers.Aunque some hospitals from countries with a high, including Finland, Norway and the United Kingdom, showed a reduction in recent years, together it has been obscured revealed an annual increase of 3.4 percent in the incidence.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by the inability of the body of producing insulin and usually develops in the second decade of life.In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce insulin.Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose penetrate cells to supply energy.Without insulin, there is an excess of glucose that remains in the blood.

And while in recent decades progress has been made very significantly that they have allowed to improve the treatment of the disease, there is still much to do.Not surprisingly, the life expectancy of patients with type 1 diabetes, although it has improved in recent years, remains inferior to that of the population not suffered by the disease.

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The authors conclude: «The increasing number of children diagnosed with this chronic disease, which is associated with increases in morbidity and mortality for life, has important implications for health responses.The limited success when identifying the origin-environmental causas or gen-environment interactions-that could eventually lead to disease prevention, means that you have to continue working to improve the quality of care to help reduce complications tolong term and deaths related to diabetes ».

For researchers, the key is to improve blood sugar control that will be achieved not only with more sophisticated insulin administration methods, “but also with a greater investment in services to provide support to well -trained care equipment anddedicated with a sufficient number to meet the growing needs of this group of children and their families ».

Here they also talk about the topic: Link

It is in English but translates it quite well with the Google Translator.

He says that cases are increasing and that a possible explanation is that health systems have improved and that makes them diagnose and deal with cases that were not done before and the person simply died and statistics were not recorded.

It also says that 12% of cases there are no family history known so it is not just a genetic issue.

As for the environmental factor, 3 things are fundamentally investigating:

- Microbiota alterations due to the food that is usually carried with a lot of ultraprocess food.
- Gluten rich diets.Diabetes and celiacch are closely related and there are many people with non -celiac gluten intolerance that may be at risk of developing autoimmune diseases.
- Excess hygiene that makes the immune system develop correctly in the first years of life and that predisposes to autoimmune problems.

And I have recently discovered this page: Link that the same is interested.They are a group of families in which they have a member with diabetes and are trying to find how to prevent the rest from developing.They say in the presentation:

We are families on a mission, we do not content ourselves with staying without doing anything and waiting to start preventing type 1 diabetes in our families.We are working with endocrinologists and researchers to find the best way to protect our family.

Currently, when someone has a positive result to detect antibodies, they are told that there are nothing they can do to delay or prevent the appearance, and that the diagnosis is essentially inevitable if there are two or more antibodies present.Although there are ongoing prevention investigations, many do not qualify to participate and participation is not a guarantee that you receive the treatment medication.

We create Preventt1d.org because we are willing to bet that many people like us want to know more, and investigate what they can do.With this site, we hope that families on this ship can learn together and share their experiences.#Wearenotwaiting to try to stop the start of T1D.

For those who want to investigate the subject there has enough to read.I have not yet read everything, but tells interesting things.