{"id":180133,"date":"2010-01-14T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/47621-t1-screening-relatives-t1.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:42:46","slug":"t1-screening-for-relatives-of-t1-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180133","title":{"rendered":"T1 screening for relatives of T1&#8230;thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>what do you think about this? we are considering having my son tested, but i&#8217;m nervous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>thoughts? opinions? has anyone done this sort of thing?<\/p>\n<p>TYPE 1 DIABETES NATURAL HISTORY STUDY UNDERWAY<br \/>\nin collaboration with The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)<\/p>\n<p>The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has teamed up with the Diabetes Education Centre at The William Osler Health Centre in Brampton to explore whether relatives of people with Type 1 Diabetes are at risk for developing the disease. <\/p>\n<p>SickKids is part of an international network called TrialNet which is dedicated to the study, prevention and early treatment of type 1 diabetes. TrialNet screening involves a simple blood test for the presence of diabetes-related antibodies that may appear years before Type 1 Diabetes develops.  First-degree blood relatives (siblings, children of parents) who are one to 45 years of age as well as second-degree blood relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, grandparents or half-siblings) who are one to 20 years of age may be screened to determine their risk of developing Type 1 Diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The Natural History study is being done to learn more about what causes Type 1 Diabetes and to better define predictors of the disease process.  Relatives of those afflicted with Type 1 Diabetes have about a 3 to 4 percent chance of testing positive for antibodies associated with diabetes.  Results will be available within a 4 to 6 week period.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what do you think about this? we are considering having my son tested, but i&#8217;m nervous&#8230; thoughts? opinions? has anyone done this sort of thing? TYPE 1 DIABETES NATURAL HISTORY STUDY UNDERWAY in collaboration with The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has teamed up with the Diabetes Education Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}