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JDRF Australia and funding partner The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Helmsley) have announced a combined additional $12 million towards the continuation of the Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) study.The ENDI
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Around one in 300 children and adolescents are diagnosed with the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes by 18 years of age. Around 90 percent of patients do not have a close relative with type 1 diabetes, meaning the disease can affect any child without a disease history in their family. People with type 1 diabetes must inject the hormone insulin for the rest of their lives because their own immune system is attacking the insulin-producing cells in the islets of their pancreas. Insulin has a vital function, transporting sugar from the blood into the body s cells. The body s own insulin is often the first target of the immune reaction which leads to type 1 diabetes.