Six months of gluten-free diet do not influence autoantibody titers, but improve insulin secretion in subjects at high risk for type 1 diabetes.

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Removal of gluten from the diet can attenuate the intensity of autoimmunity and reduces the incidence of diabetes in the nonobese diabetic mouse. In this study, we tested whether a gluten-free diet could reduce autoimmunity in human preclinical type 1 diabetes. A trial consisting of 6 months of a gluten-free diet followed by another 6 months of normal gluten-containing diet was performed in 17 first-degree...

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