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Mar. 6th, 2009 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgSomething I've been saying for years.
A common virus may be the trigger for the development of many cases of diabetes, particularly in children, UK researchers have reported.
The fact they're attributing some cases of Type II to this as well is new - but.
It wasn't until AIDS showed up that anyone ever considered something other than GENETIC FAIL SOWWY in the cases of Type I. Twin studies have shown pretty much conclusively that the biggest risk factor for developing type I was an identical sibling who already had, but that it was by no means a lock.
Something else had to be at work.
90% of type I diagnoses are done in families with no previous history of it. And the victim is nearly always alone.
(Type II? 50% chance per parent their kids will have it. It's a whole package.)
Cliff was born in postwar Okinawa - off base. A random enterovirus? More likely than not. I'd make book on it. What he inherited was an incredibly good immune system - the whole family is just about unkillable and he could NOT handle it when I caught a cold - the whole thing was too strange for him.
So if they find a cure for Type I diabetes, you can thank God for sending us AIDS. That's why we're getting this kind of thing now.
Curse, my butt.
A common virus may be the trigger for the development of many cases of diabetes, particularly in children, UK researchers have reported.
The fact they're attributing some cases of Type II to this as well is new - but.
It wasn't until AIDS showed up that anyone ever considered something other than GENETIC FAIL SOWWY in the cases of Type I. Twin studies have shown pretty much conclusively that the biggest risk factor for developing type I was an identical sibling who already had, but that it was by no means a lock.
Something else had to be at work.
90% of type I diagnoses are done in families with no previous history of it. And the victim is nearly always alone.
(Type II? 50% chance per parent their kids will have it. It's a whole package.)
Cliff was born in postwar Okinawa - off base. A random enterovirus? More likely than not. I'd make book on it. What he inherited was an incredibly good immune system - the whole family is just about unkillable and he could NOT handle it when I caught a cold - the whole thing was too strange for him.
So if they find a cure for Type I diabetes, you can thank God for sending us AIDS. That's why we're getting this kind of thing now.
Curse, my butt.
