A European study found that "clusters" of type 1 diabetes cases among children may be triggered by environmental or infectious causes.
Published in the journal Diabetologia, the study was conducted by British researchers at the University of Newcastle. Researchers tracked more than 3,000 children who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes over nearly two and a half decades. In a significant proportion of cases, researchers found that type 1 diabetes diagnoses tended to crop up in "space-time clusters," indicating that some environmental factor or possible infectious agent may have triggered multiple diagnoses in the same community and span of time. The study's authors called for further research into possible external "triggers" of type 1 diabetes.
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