Directory of Type 1 Resources

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Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease that occurs when the pancreas stops producing insulin because of an immune attack and destruction of cells within the pancreas that produce insulin. Previously known as juvenile diabetes. Type 1 patients are insulin dependent and have to inject or use an insulin pump to manage their condition.

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• BBC News: Transplant Cures Man of Diabetes

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4330717.stm
  A 61-year-old man is the first person in the UK to be cured of diabetes by a cell transplant technique.

• Chemists Identify Key Gene In Development Of Type 1 Diabetes

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325230349.htm
  Article discusses a proinflammatory protein that may be involved in the cascade of immunological events that leads to the destruction of the pancreas.

• Diabetes Mellitus

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/919999-overview
  Covers the background, pathophysiology, frequency, mortality/morbidity, causes, treatment, and medication. By eMedicine.

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - A Review

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/117739-overview
  Covers the background, pathophysiology, frequency, causes, medication, and treatment of this condition.

• Diabetes: Type 1

  http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_type_1_diabetes_000009_1.htm
  An in-depth report on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, long term complications, and associated emergency conditions. From the University of Maryland Medical Center.

• Etiology of Type 1 Diabetes

  http://www.nafwa.org/iddm.php
  Article covers genetics, cow's milk, viral infections, and environmental factors which can influence the destruction of the pancreatic cells that cause this disease.

• Type 1 Diabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatments

  http://www.endocrineweb.com/diabetes/1diabetes.html
  Describes the incidence, causes, hereditary tendencies, and management of this disease.

• Type 1 Diabetics Can Get 'Double Diabetes' From Insulin Resistance, Says University Of Pittsburgh

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030425071101.htm
  Article from Science Daily discusses this major cause of heart disease in people.

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