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Thread: Is This Just a Coincidence?

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11-03-2006, 07:51 AM

belyro

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Location: Manitoba, Canada

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Is This Just a Coincidence?

I'm curious to have some more people weigh in on something I heard yesterday.

My friend knows a guy who became diabetic (Type 1) a number of years ago. The odd thing is, he and 2 other guys who were both in the same university class (sounds like it was a pretty small class) all were diagnosed with Type 1 within a short period of time (I believe it was all within a number of months of one another).

I've had diabetes since I was 3, so I haven't studied diabetes onset much, but is this purely a coincidence? Three young men in the same class all Type 1 within a short amount of time seems very odd.

Thoughts?

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