Less than 10 percent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.
Patients with type 1 must take insulin to stay alive, and there’s been no way to prevent the disease.
Now, for the first time, researchers say there may be a way to prevent or delay the disease in some people with a genetic risk.
We explain how in Healthy Living.
People with the DQ8 gene are about ten-times more likely to develop type 1 diabetes.
A larger clinical trial will start enrolling patients in the next couple of months.
People with a relative with type 1 diabetes can get tested for the DQ8 gene.
If they have it, they may be a candidate to enroll in the trial.
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