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...hoping that insulin treatment before the disease expresses itself will prevent the disease altogether," says Dr. R. Paul Robertson, professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. "In the best of all possible worlds, this method would prevent or delay Type I diabetes," he says...
Type I or juvenile-onset diabetes occurs when a body's immune system attacks the cells that create insulin. Insulin is necessary for the body to break down sugars for energy. The disease progresses slowly with few symptoms...
...study will span seven years, with an actual trail period of four years. High risk participants will be injected with insulin while lower risk subjects will take the insulin orally. The insulin injection trial is now underway, and the oral insulin trial will start next year...
...doctors will first look for people with antibodies that attack cells which produce insulin. They will then try to identify people who release little insulin when injected with glucose...
Parents, siblings or children of diabetics are prime candidates for the study, since they are most likely to have the antibodies that kill insulin-producing cells...