Re: [IP] Mom's Stem Cells Might Treat Child's Diabetes

["BARBARA ZUFELT" <email @ redacted>]

Here is a genetic fact.  Mom had type 2 in her 40's.  Dad died of CAD in his
40's [no diabetes].  Both his sisters had diabetes.  Betty unknown type but
lost a baby in the 1940's due to diabetic complications. and Ruth Type 2 got
it in her 40's.  Myself type 2 got it at 45 and my brother got it at 49.
  Genetics play a role in type 1 diabetes - but to a lesser degree than in
  type 2 diabetes. In general, a child has an increased risk of type 1
  diabetes if a parent has the disease. But the risk is still low. Factors
  that influence this risk include:

      * The age at which the parent developed diabetes. The younger the age,
  the greater the risk that the child will get the disease.
  Type 1 is not, as far as we know now, an inherited form of the
  disease.  There seems to be an inherited tendency, but without the right
  (or wrong) outside stimulus type 1 diabetes will not occur.  Type 1 is the
  autoimmune-mediated type of diabetes. Type 2 is the inherited form.
.
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