http://endodoc.org Potpourri of Pediatric Endocrinology Fri, 14 May 2010 09:00:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://endodoc.org/about-endodocorg/comment-page-1/#comment-104415 endodoc Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:34:09 +0000 http://endodoc.org/?page_id=6#comment-104415 Thanks. I have no "business efforts" other than letting people know what I think about this and that. Thanks. I have no “business efforts” other than letting people know what I think about this and that.

]]> http://endodoc.org/about-endodocorg/comment-page-1/#comment-50658 endodoc Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:45:52 +0000 http://endodoc.org/?page_id=6#comment-50658 I e-mailed you directly with a reply but I didn't hear if you got it so I'll also respond here. It remains a mystery what exactly triggers the autoimmune process that destroys the pancreatic beta cells resulting in diabetes. Only about 3% of people who carry the genes for type 1 diabetes actually get it. But in identical twins, if one twin develops diabetes, the other twin also develops diabetes about 70-80% of the time but it may be many years between the ages of onset of diabetes. Is it a virus, is it several viruses, is it chemicals? No one knows. Several years ago scientists thought it was from cows milk, but that turned out to be a dud. At present about 1 in 500 people have type 1 diabetes. Why cases seem to "cluster" we just don't understand. Obviously this is a very important question. I e-mailed you directly with a reply but I didn’t hear if you got it so I’ll also respond here. It remains a mystery what exactly triggers the autoimmune process that destroys the pancreatic beta cells resulting in diabetes. Only about 3% of people who carry the genes for type 1 diabetes actually get it. But in identical twins, if one twin develops diabetes, the other twin also develops diabetes about 70-80% of the time but it may be many years between the ages of onset of diabetes. Is it a virus, is it several viruses, is it chemicals? No one knows. Several years ago scientists thought it was from cows milk, but that turned out to be a dud. At present about 1 in 500 people have type 1 diabetes. Why cases seem to “cluster” we just don’t understand. Obviously this is a very important question.

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