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According to the World Health Organization, around 1.6 million people worldwide died due to diabetes in 2016. It is estimated that 425 million people are living with diabetes all over the world. By 2045, projections show this number rising to some 629 million diabetics globally. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the pancreas […]
Over the last few months, researchers have rushed to gather information on the effects of a virus that, just last year, was unknown to science. The virus, SARS-CoV-2, causes the disease COVID-19. Now, with millions of cases globally, scientists are trying to understand which factors have an association with poorer outcomes. Among these factors is […]
People with diabetes or heart disease are known to be more at risk from coronavirus, which is starting to spread rapidly in the UK and internationally. That is a concern for the 7.4 million Britons who have some form of cardiac or circulatory disease, which includes 4.8 million people with diabetes. The common risk factor […]
Viruses have long been suspected to be involved in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, but consistent evidence connecting viruses to the condition has been hard to come by. Investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine, the University of South Florida, and other institutions studied samples available through the TEDDY study, the […]
A new study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health investigators has added new findings on the link between the presence of enteroviruses in children’s intestinal tracts and the onset of islet autoimmunity, which leads to type 1 diabetes. Nonpolio enteroviruses made the news in 2018 after 1 enterovirus was linked to an outbreak […]
Rotavirus, which directly infects pancreas cells and causes cell death via apoptosis, has previously been associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D). To further investigate whether natural infection with the virus was a causative factor in T1D, a team of investigators analyzed publicly available data in Australian children following the introduction of the rotavirus to the […]