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A combined risk score enhances prediction of type 1 diabetes among susceptible children.
Nature medicine - 1 Aug 2020
Ferrat Lauric A, Vehik Kendra, Sharp Seth A, Lernmark Åke, Rewers Marian J, She Jin-Xiong, Ziegler Anette-G, Toppari Jorma, Akolkar Beena, Krischer Jeffrey P, Weedon Michael N, Oram Richard A, Hagopian William A
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes (T1D)-an autoimmune disease that destroys the pancreatic islets, resulting in insulin deficiency-often begins early in life when islet autoantibody appearance signals high risk1. However, clinical diabetes can follow in weeks or only after decades, and is very difficult to predict. Ketoacidosis at onset remains common2,3 and is most severe in the very young4,5, in whom it can be life threatening...
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