A Clue to the Rise in Type 1 Diabetes
Posted Mar 17th 2007 4:54PM by Allie Beatty
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Research, Daily News, Opinion
Thousands of pre-school age children are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as new figures show a dramatic rise over the past 20 years.
Between 1985 and 2004, the study conducted by Bristol University, has seen an increase in cases of type 1 diabetes in children under the age of 5 five times the previous average. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease in which the body fails to produce insulin or makes only a little. One of the theories leading to the rise in type 1 diabetes is due to infants being exposed to exorbitantly clean households. The researchers found that incidence in all children under 15 had doubled. But the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children under the age of five went from .2 cases per 1,000 to 1 case per thousand.
The hypothesis offered by Prof Bingley leads to a very good argument. He said, "the increase is too steep to be put down to genetic factors, so it must be due to changes in our environment. This could mean that we are being exposed to something new or that we have reduced exposure to something that was previously controlling our immune responses". Much like the denouement in a game of CLUE: perhaps it was Mr. Clean, with the mop, in the kitchen!
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1. "One of the theories leading to the rise in type 1 diabetes is due to infants being exposed to exorbitantly clean households".
That is so silly. You then can also say that a rise in T1DM in children was due to having too many vanilla yogurt containers in the refrigerator.
The article listed did not go into depth as to how this conclusion was reached.
Posted at 10:42PM on Mar 17th 2007 by BetterCell