The Discovery of Type 1 Diabetes
The Discovery of Type 1 Diabetes
The concept of type 1 diabetes as an immunemediated disease emerged rapidly over the period from 1974 to 1976 and showed many of the features of a classic ...
The discovery of type 1 diabetes - PubMed
The etiological heterogeneity of idiopathic diabetes has been recognized for 25 years, and subdivision into type 1 and type 2 diabetes is fundamental to the ...
Diabetes: Past treatments, new discoveries - MedicalNewsToday
Over 3,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians mentioned a condition that appears to have been type 1 diabetes. It featured excessive urination, ...
Milestones in the history of diabetes mellitus: The main contributors
They isolated insulin from pancreatic islets and administrated to patients suffering from type 1 diabetes, saving thus the lives of millions and inaugurating a ...
History of Diabetes: From Ancient Egypt to Modern Medicine
In Greek, “diabetes” means “to go through.” Greek physician Apollonius of Memphis is credited with naming the disorder for its top symptom: the excessive ...
From Thebes to Toronto and the 21st Century: An Incredible Journey
The discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921–22 was one of the greatest events in the history of medicine.
The History of Type 1: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
The earliest traceable mention of diabetes in history came from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, speaking of a disease that causes rapid weight loss ...
The Past 200 Years in Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine
Insulin was the first hormone for which the three-dimensional crystal structure was determined (by Dorothy Hodgkin, who had previously received ...
Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when pancreatic (beta cells) are destroyed by the body's ...
History of Diabetes - News-Medical
Diabetes mellitus is derived from the Greek word diabetes meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus meaning honeyed or sweet.
The History of a Wonderful Thing We Call Insulin
In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from diabetes in a Toronto hospital, became the first person to receive an injection ...
Type 1 diabetes - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
They may include increased thirst, frequent urination, bed wetting in children who previously didn't wet the bed. Extreme hunger, unintended ...
History of diabetes - Wikipedia
In regard to diabetes mellitus, Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski are commonly credited with the formal discovery (1889) of a role for the pancreas in ...
Type 1 Diabetes: Causes, Symptoms, Complications & Treatment
Anyone at any age can develop Type 1 diabetes (T1D), though the most common age at diagnosis is between the ages of 4 to 6 and in early puberty (10 to 14 years) ...
This reaction destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin, called beta cells. This process can go on for months or years before any ...
Type 1 diabetes: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
In people with type 1 diabetes, an infection or another trigger causes the body to mistakenly attack the beta cells in the pancreas that make ...
Type 1 Diabetes | Johns Hopkins Medicine
How is type 1 diabetes diagnosed? · Fasting plasma glucose (FPG). This test checks your blood glucose levels after having no calorie intake for at least 8 hours.
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus - Medscape Reference
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic illness characterized by the body's inability to produce insulin due to the autoimmune destruction of the beta ...
Type 1 Diabetes | University of Michigan Health
Type 1 diabetes (also known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus — IDDM — or juvenile diabetes) occurs when the pancreas does not make enough insulin ...
Type 1 diabetes mellitus: much progress, many opportunities - JCI
As part of the centennial celebration of insulin's discovery, this review summarizes the current understanding of the genetics, pathogenesis ...