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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/viral-infections-linked-to-diabetes.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Viral infections could play a role in the development of Type 1 diabetes, researchers say" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-viral-infections-linked-to-diabetes.jpg" alt="Viral infections could play a role in the development of Type 1 diabetes, researchers say"/></a></p>
<p>Viral infections could play a role in the development of Type 1 diabetes, according to a review of existing studies.</p>
<p>Researchers found that people with diabetes are around nine times more likely to have had enterovirus than those without the condition. Enterovirus refers to a collection of viruses which can cause a range of symptoms, including fever, cold, rash, sickness and diarrhoea.</p>
<p>Experts from Sydney, Australia, reviewed 24 studies on the issue, involving more than 1,900 people with Type 1 diabetes, or a related condition known as pre-diabetes. Most of the participants were children, the time when Type 1 usually develops.</p>
<p>The researchers found a strong association between enterovirus and Type 1 diabetes.</p>
<p>While they said the findings &#8220;cannot prove&#8221; that enterovirus infection causes diabetes, the results provide &#8220;additional support to the direct evidence of enterovirus infection in pancreatic tissue of individuals with type 1 diabetes&#8221;.</p>
<p>Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the authors concluded: &#8220;Our results show an association between Type 1 diabetes and enterovirus infection, with a more than nine times the risk of infection in cases of diabetes and three times the risk in children with autoimmunity.</p>
<p>&#8220;The odds of having an enterovirus infection in people with established diabetes suggest that persistent enterovirus infection is also common among patients with type 1 diabetes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Type 1 diabetes is believed to be caused by a complex relationship between genetic factors, the immune system and the environment. Some 300,000 people in the UK have Type 1 diabetes.</p>
<p>The authors said genetics alone could not explain the rising numbers of people with the condition worldwide.</p>
<p>&#8220;In recent decades there has been a rapid rise in the incidence of childhood Type 1 diabetes worldwide, especially in those under the age of five,&#8221; they said. &#8220;In Europe, from 1989-2003 the average annual increase was 3.9%, too fast to be accounted for by genetics alone.&#8221;</p>
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