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Vitamin D deficiency doesn’t speed up type 1 diabetes

Scientists sought to examine whether a vitamin D deficiency occurs during an early stage of T1 diabetes and if this vitamin deficiency influences the progression to T1 diabetes. The research, published in Diabetologia measured vitamin D levels in 108 children with multiple islet autoantibodies within 2 years of islet autoantibody seroconversion, 406 children who remained autoantibody-negative and 244 patients with newly-diagnosed T1 diabetes. Research said this link between vitamin D deficiency and the beginnings of T1 diabetes, caused perhaps by an immune system response, meant vitamin D supplementation may be worth considering for pre-diabetic children. Low levels of vitamin D are commonly found in people with type 1 diabetes.

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