Insulin production decreases regularly for seven years in people with type 1 diabetes, but from that moment it is stabilized, according to a recent study published in the Diabetes Care magazine.
A team from the University of Exeter Medicine ensures that insulin levels decrease by 50% every year during the first seven years after diagnosis.But from that moment they begin to level.
This finding is a great advance in understanding even more the autoimmune condition because before it had always been thought that insulin levels continued to fall throughout the person's life.
The treatments could radically change this conclusion and focus mainly on the first seven years of the diagnosis.
The principal researcher, Dr. Beverley Shields has said that “this discovery is very exciting and suggests that a person with type 1 diabetes would maintain beta cells seven years after diagnosis .. It may be that there is a small group of 'resilient' beta cellsresistant to immune attack.Understand these “resistant” beta cells can open new treatment paths for type 1. "diabetes
The study included the measurement of C peptide levels in 1,549 people with type 1 diabetes.The amount of C-Petid in the blood or urine indicates the amount of insulin that the body is doing.
Karen Addington, executive director of the JDRF, who supported the investigation, has said that “these results provide additional evidence that the assault of the immune system to insulin producing cells is not as complete as we believed.This opens the door more to the identification of ways to preserve insulin production in people diagnosed with or live with type 1. "diabetes
The study results have been published in the Diabetes Care magazine.