• Question: Can people who weren't born with diabetes get type 1 diabetes?

    Asked by anaeem135 to Liz, Emilie, Diabetes UK on 6 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Emilie Combet

      Emilie Combet answered on 6 Mar 2014:


      Yes, it can happen progressively. You can be born with a pancreas that works and produces insulin, but as the years go by, the pancreatic cells get damaged, and stop producing insulin. The damage usually happen because the body produces antibodies attacking its own pancreas.

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