Diabetes

Risk Factors

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1. Scientists believe that type 1 diabetes may be caused by




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Scientists believe that type 1 diabetes may be caused by environmental and genetic factors. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that make insulin and destroys them. The pancreas then produces little or no insulin.