Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Researchers at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. seem to have found a genetic link between type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, suggesting that the two diseases may be triggered by similar environmental factors.

Researchers had previously seen genetic links between type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, which, together, affect about 1 percent of the population, Todd said.

But the new research shows there is “considerable overlap, and much more than we anticipated” he said. “Almost every celiac disease susceptibility gene had an effect in type 1 diabetes.”

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