{"id":170598,"date":"2025-07-28T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170598"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:39:00","slug":"diabetes-identified-black-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/diabetes-identified-black-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New Form of Type 1 Diabetes Identified in Black Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new discovery could change how type 1 diabetes<\/a> is diagnosed and managed in individuals of African descent, researchers say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In type 1 diabetes, the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas stop working in childhood or young adulthood. The disease<\/a> has always been attributed to an autoimmune process<\/strong> in which the immune system produces so-called autoantibodies that mistakenly attack the pancreas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But studying 894 volunteers in Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa with youth-onset diabetes, researchers found that 65% of them did not have the usual autoantibodies typically seen in people<\/strong> with type 1 diabetes in other parts of the world. Nor did they have the genes that usually predispose to the disease<\/a>, or features consistent with other known types of diabetes, such as type 2 and malnutrition-related diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis suggests that many young people in this region have a different form of type 1 diabetes <\/strong>altogether and is not autoimmune in origin,\u201d study leader Dana Dabelea of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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