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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 which was previously stored at Vita 34. 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. The first child was treated in March 2009. The examination is still pending, so  results are not yet available.

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

 

 

 

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