Re: Passing on T1 (was Cheating Destiny (book excerpt))
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Posted by klausen on 12:17:32 2006/07/11
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Re: Passing on T1 (was Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)) posted by Renee
This information is common knowledge which you can find all over the internet or in any medical library, though patient-oriented diabetes organizations love to lie or suppress information for the patients' benefit. Type 1 males have a 7% chance of having diabetic children; type 1 females have a 4% chance of having diabetic children. Since the usual rate of diabetes in the first world population is one in 300 (this varies from a high in Denmark to a low in Spain), it is easy to calculate from this that the chance of a diabetic male passing on the disease is about 20 times greater than normal, and a female 12 times greater than normal.
A good place to confirm these statistics is the PubMed website of medical journal abstracts. Since this is essentially a site for doctors to talk to other doctors, the truth is not sweetened up to keep the patients in line.
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