{"id":147463,"date":"2022-10-03T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/increasing-evidence-a-common-virus-triggers-type-1-diabetes"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:25:49","slug":"increasing-evidence-a-common-virus-triggers-type-1-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/increasing-evidence-a-common-virus-triggers-type-1-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Increasing evidence a common virus triggers type 1 diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/increasing-evidence-a-common-virus-triggers-type-1-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new systematic review has presented strong evidence the development of type 1 diabetes is linked to infection by enterovirus, a large group of common viruses. The findings build on a growing hypothesis linking the viruses to type 1 diabetes, with vaccines currently in development targeting the most likely viral strains.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion an enterovirus infection can trigger type 1 diabetes goes back more than 50 years, to a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/3\/5671\/627?\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">report published in 1969<\/a> that linked new-onset diabetes to recent infections with an enterovirus called Coxsackie B. Since then there have been a number of different studies published digging into this link, and the results have been <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/diabetesjournals.org\/diabetes\/article\/57\/11\/2863\/13427\/Viral-Trigger-for-Type-1-DiabetesPros-and-Cons\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">frustratingly inconsistent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.d35\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">A key 2011 study<\/a> offered the first systematic review on the subject, focusing on modern molecular testing techniques (such as PCR tests). It found a clinically significant association between enterovirus infection and type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new systematic review has presented strong evidence the development of type 1 diabetes is linked to infection by enterovirus, a large group of common viruses. The findings build on a growing hypothesis linking the viruses to type 1 diabetes, with vaccines currently in development targeting the most likely viral strains. The suggestion an enterovirus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}