Certain Islet Autoantibodies May Predict Onset Of Diabetes In Young Children.

t a study published online in the journal Diabetes Care suggests that “levels of insulin autoantibodies (IAAs) and insulinoma-associated protein 2 autoantibodies (IA-2As) predict the onset of diabetes in young children with islet autoimmunity.” The study of 577 children revealed that the majority of youngsters “who progressed to diabetes within five years of first islet autoantibody detection had at least two islet autoantibodies, were very young and had first-degree relatives with diabetes.” Specifically, “each one-unit increase in log mean IAA level was associated with an 8.1-fold increased risk of developing diabetes during follow-up, and each one-unit increase in log mean IA-2A level increased it 7.4-fold.” http://www.medwirenews.com/57/106174/Diabetes/Islet_autoantibody_levels_predict_progression_to_diabetes.html