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Posted by Al Gordon on 13:53:59 2004/07/30
In Reply to: Re: Juvenile diabetes linked to baby formula (Australia) posted by Bonnie
In the past, people with autoimmune diseases often died before having children. As more and more people with autoimmune diseases (asthma, MS, T1 diabetes, Crohn's, over/underactive thyroid, arthritis) have children, the probability that their children will have the disease increases.
The parents do not themselves even have to have the disease, but the probability that both parents have the same recessive gene increases with each generation. Further compounding the problem is the fact that a family with a history of diabetes, for example, is more likely to have a child with arthritis, also an autoimmune disease.
So we may be reaching a point where several generations of parents with autoimmune diseases or recessive genes have reached a critical mass, and the increase in T1 diabetes is the consequence.
Al
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