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TEDDY study adds to a growing body of evidence that type 1 diabetes is not a single disease

October 22, 2021

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New findings from the international The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study add to a growing body of evidence indicating that type 1 diabetes is not a single disease. The presentation and, perhaps, cause of autoimmune diabetes differs among genetically high-risk children, the research suggests.

In a cohort study published July 22 in Diabetologia, lead author Jeffrey Krischer, PhD, director of the Health Informatics Institute at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, and TEDDY colleagues compared the characteristics of type 1 diabetes diagnosed in children before vs. after age 6. The paper’s senior author was Beena Akolkar, PhD, of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

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