Ever more people are affected by type 1 diabetes, which is also called youth diabetes. Annually, some 1,200 children and adolescents contract it in Germany. In 2020 the number of patients suffering from type 1 diabetes will be doubled. So far, the disease cannot be healed. For those affected, this means that they rely on injecting insulin and a special diet for their entire lives.

For the first time in Germany, the research group Diabetes of the Technical University of Munich, headed by Prof Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, and Vita 34 will examine the effectiveness of blood of the umbilical cord for type 1 diabetes. To this end, children with type 1 diabetes will be administered their own blood of the umbilical cord. Subsequently, the children will be regularly examined over the course of two years and compared with a group of control children which were treated with traditional methods.

US doctors conducted a study in 2007, whose results were very promising.

 

 

 

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