login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Common Infant Virus may Trigger Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, who conducted the study, suggested that this "silent" Human parechovirus should be taken into consideration when looking for triggers for type 1 diabetes among those who are genetically at risk.
This study was conducted as part of a long-term project to examine if environmental risk factors affect type 1 diabetes.
For closer study, faecal samples and questionnaires about the health of 102 children were sent in monthly by their parents. Researchers wanted to see how common human parechovirus infections were among Norwegian infants.
Existing research indicates that a related virus, which only affects rodents, Ljungan virus, has been linked to the development of rodent diabetes.
By studying stool samples from 102 infants and comparing feedback from parents about their child's health over three years, no significant link could be found between infection episodes and typical symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, vomiting, diarrhoea or fever.
By the age of two, 86 percent of the infants had evidence of parechovirus in their faeces, and 94 percent by the age of three. Human parechovirus 1 was the most prevalent type (76 percent) followed by human parechoviruses 3 and 6 (13 percent and 9 percent respectively).
The researchers also found an increase in parechovirus infection between the ages of 6 and 18 months.
|
|
|
More News on: Chicken Pox, Diabetic Retinopathy, Diabetes, Diabetic Diet, Otitis Media, Shigellosis, Diabetes - Essentials, Diabetes - Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose (SMBG), Insulin Delivery Devices, Development Milestone
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
 | Quiz on Diabetes Are you at risk for diabetes? To find out check out our health quiz. 
|
- News Quick Links
 | News Central | | Health Watch | |
| Latest Health News | | Health In Focus | |
| News Category (500+) | | Breaking Health News | |
| Popular News | | Celebrating Life | |
| Health News and Press Release | | Medindia - Exclusive | |
| News Photo Gallery | | India Special | |
| News Video Gallery | | Lifestyle and Wellness | |
| News From Other Resources | |||
 |
Diabetes
Complete Medindia Resources
|
| News Categories: |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| » | Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors Probed |
| » | Breast MRI 'Better Than Clinical Approach for Predicting Chemotherapy's Efficiency' |
| More Cancer News | |
|
Diabetes Related News |
||||||||
| » | Severity of Sleep Apnea Could Predict Diabetes | » | Proper Care Can Prevent Amputations in Diabetic Foot Infections | |||||
| » | ACE2, Protective Molecule Champions in Diabetic Patients | » | Bariatric Surgery can Lower Blood Sugar Levels | |||||
| » | Researchers Discover Target for Diabetes Drug | » | Diabetes Cases Could Rise by 64 Percent in the US by 2025 | |||||
| » | Cut-Rate Paper-Based Diabetes Test Apt for Developing Countries | » | Medication Errors Put Diabetics Lives at Risk: Report | |||||
| Read More >> | ||||||||
