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Celiac.com 10/20/2020 - Doctors diagnosing children for type 1 diabetes are increasingly finding other autoimmune conditions that can complicate the outlook for these patients. A team of researchers recently set out to study rates of comorbid autoimmune diseases, including celiac disease, and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) in children.

Rates of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) in children are on the rise, but it's unclear what relationship, if any, this might have with other coexistent autoimmune conditions, since diabetes onset is not well understood.

The team studied 264 boys and 229 girls between 0 and 18 years old with newly diagnosed with T1D in one of the Polish centers from 20102018. They determined diagnoses for related autoimmune illnesses from initial data recorded when patients first received diagnosis for T1D.

The team found that the standardized incidence rate of T1D in children rose 170% over the 9-year study period, while the incidence rate ratio rose 4% per year.

As rates of T1D have risen rapidly in all children of all ages in recent years, so, too have rates of the autoimmune diseases that frequently accompany these conditions. Having an additional autoimmunity disorder is a serious burden for patients with new-onset T1D.

Stay tuned for more information on the challenges faced by children with more than one auto-immune disease.

Read more in Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2020; 11: 476.

Reference:Gowiska-Olszewska B, Szabowski M, Panas P, et al. Increasing co-occurance of additional autoimmune disorders at diabetes type 1 onset among children and adolescents diagnosed in years 2010-2018single-center study. Front Endocrinol. Published online August 6, 2020. doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00476

The research team included Barbara Gowiska-Olszewska,Maciej Szabowski,Patrycja Panas,Karolina oadek,Milena Jamiokowska-Sztabkowska,Anna Justyna Milewska,Anna Kadubiska,Agnieszka Polkowska,Wodzimierz uczyski,and Artur Bossowski. They are variously affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology With Cardiology Division, Medical University of Bialystok, Biaystok, Poland; the Department of Pediatrics, Rheumatology, Immunology and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, Biaystok, Poland; the Department of Statistics and Medical Informatics, Medical University of Bialystok, Biaystok, Poland; and the Department of Medical Simulations, Medical University of Bialystok, Biaystok, Poland.

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