Research on T1D prescreening in young children

https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/screening-for-type-1-diabetes#Why-is-this-important?

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Good read, decreasing DKA and potentially preventing or delaying the onset of T1D. Good stuff.

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Prevent a lotta heartbreaks for families.

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“Specifically, the German study found that 31 percent of the kids screened were identified as “high-risk” for developing T1D through the presence of two or more key islet autoantibodies”

Seems quite high, right? From the summary of the original article:

“280 children (0.31%) had 2 or more islet autoantibodies” :thinking:

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