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Findings in Diabetes Reported from University of Gdansk

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 12th, 2012

2012 JAN 12 -- Fresh data on Diabetes are presented in the report "The association of the IVS1-397T>C estrogen receptor a polymorphism with the regulatory conditions in longstanding type 1 diabetic girls." According to the authors of a study from Gdansk, Poland, "Type 1 diabetes is considered as pluricausal disease, whose etiology involves genetic predisposition as well as environmental factors that contribute to disease progression and pathogenesis. Women are believed to be more susceptible to develop autoimmune diseases, which may depend in part on the influence of sex hormones on the immune system."

"It was shown that estrogens may protect against the...

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