Prevention of T1DM - Ensuring that this is the last generation!
 he Children With Diabetes Foundation is proud to help sponsor the Nutritional Intervention to Prevent (NIP) Diabetes Study. Sonia Cooper (CWDF President)'s children were in the study just published in JAMA, and she worked with Dr. Peter Chase and Dr. Michael Clare-Salzler for three years developing a prevention protocol and obtaining supplies and funding.
Sonia gives her children (the non-diabetic siblings) DHA to prevent abnormal inflammation and enhance cell health and prevent diabetes. This prevention grant (NIP) was initiated when Sonia reviewed a grant written by Dr. Clare-Salzler. Shortly after that review, her older son was diagnosed with the autoantibodies that preceed diagnosis of T1DM. After flying to Gainesville and having him tested, he was found to have very high levels of the inflammatory markers that are often present prior to diagnosis of diabetes. Her son was put on high dose fish oil, and thankfully the autoantibodies disappeared. This was 8 years ago and was a source of inspiration for the prevention study.
See the article she wrote with Drs. Chase and Clare-Salzler regarding CRP as a marker of inflammation and a predictor of progression to T1DM http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15448085&query_hl=9&itool=pubmed_docsum
Our foundation is pleased to announce we are funding two grant funding requests for the two of the study center sites, CHLA (Dr. Francine Kaufman) and Joslin (Dr. Tihamer Orban).
To read about some of the background on a related observational study, see this month's JAMA artice!
Children at Increased Risk for Type 1 Diabetes. See also Omega-3s may protect children from diabetes and Omega-3s fight diabetes.
URL: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/12/1420
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URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070926.wbeck26/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
CRL: http://url.childrenwithdiabetes.com/?u=8853
URL: http://features.us.reuters.com/wellbeing/news/N25416569.html
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