type 1 diabetes causes?

Question

the juvenile diabetes association claims it is caused by a virus that attacks the pancreas that kills the beta cells. They say it is not genetic but the weakness for it 'may' be. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

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Answer 4

Directly from the JDF website....

" Both genetics and environmental “triggers” are being studied as potential causes of type 1 diabetes."

Research shows that only 15% have a first degree relative. Other reports suggest that a father with type 1 is more likely to have children who develop it than those whose mothers have it, and the older she is when having children the lower the chance becomes (as low as 1%). Even still, there's still only a 6-7% chance that the children of the father will develop it. It's thought that mothers might pass on some type of protection from a virus that would cause it, which would support the virus theory. Most researchers believe that first a person needs to have the predisposition, like the gene, to develop type 1 and then there needs to be a trigger, as in a virus. Some people will have many people in their families that have it while others will have no one. What is clear in most type 1's is that it is an autoimmune response, where the body's immune system is destroying healthy beta cells. If researchers could figure out how to stop this response they would cure type 1 diabetes.

Answer 5

All answers here are great. THERE IS a genetic disposition to develop Type 1. You must have the genes to get it (autoimmune Type 1 anyway). Then, something(s) in the environment *triggers* it in someone who is genetically at risk. We have not pinpointed that exactly what that trigger is or what the triggers are, although we think a virus and/or dietary proteins like gluten/casein may play a role.

It also appears as though some people have a higher genetic disposition to develop it. You see this when you have families with multiple generations of Type 1, sometimes called familial Type 1 diabetes.

Recent research has shown that certain genetic mutations in the AIRE gene makes someone have an 85% chance of developing Type 1 by age 20.

Genetics DO play a large role, especially in some cases.

There are some people who have "atypical" forms of Type 1, which may come from a direct viral attack on their pancreas (not like autoimmune Type 1, in which the body attacks it own cells in response to a trigger).

We don't know enough about all the genetics involved in Type 1 (possibly different gene mutations in different people) to really say anything for certain.

Answer 6

I don't think they know quite yet. It's an autoimmune disease ...your own immune system, for some reason, recognises the insulin producing islet cells as foreign bodies and attacks in the same way it would attack a virus. The latest speculation is that a virus triggers this immune response in people who have a genetic predisposition to getting diabetes. I don't have any relatives recorded as having juvenile diabetes but there are a few relatives with other autoimmune disorders like pernicious anaemia and vitiligo. People with type1 diabetes may go on to develop coeliac disease which is also an autoimmune disorder. What I'm thinking is maybe the genetic part of diabetes is a fault in the immune system recognition, that is shared by other autoimmune related diseases ...just a theory though Will it get worse? There are lots of old type1 diabetics out there. You won't necessarily develop the complications that doctors throw at you, although you might waste your life waiting for them to hit like I do (c; ...but if you really want to know, talk to your doctor/diabetes educator and start reading. You could also try googling 'type 1 diabetes complications' for a truly doom filled version of possibilities but I prefer to be in denial (c; Good Luck and Good Health to you

Answer 7

Sweetheart is absolutely right! I had never had problems with any blood level readings for 21 years. About a year after I took the hepatitis B vaccine, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It does not run in my family. However, that's not to say that everyone diagnosed with type 1 got it from a vaccine, but some scientists have found an increase in type 1 diabetes in children who take vaccines like the MMR vaccine and the hep B vaccine.

Before anyone flies off the handle, I'm not saying to not vaccinate. I am saying however that vaccines are not without risk.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It is known as juvenile diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) disease that occurs when the pancreas produces too little insulin to regulate blood sugar levels appropriately. The beta cells of the pancreas produce little or no insulin. The cause of Type 1 Diabetes is unknown, although childhood infections and a genetic tendency are two possibilities.

Answer 10

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