GAD antibodies linked to Coxsackie virus

[foxl]

SpringerLink - Journal Article (http://www.springerlink.com/content/uhuraxd9lg9bpw91/)


Hmmm ... and perhaps the confusion is worsened by Vit. D deficiency ... ? ;)

It would explain why living with my kids increased my risk, anyhow. (HAH blame it all on the kids ... right).

[foxl]

By confusion, btw, I meant the confusion of our immune systems, of GAD enzyme and the coxsackie virus ... or that our body might overproduce these antibodies, even after coxsackie has left the building.

[mazea]

Wow interesting. thanks for sharing. I wonder if multiple attacks of the coxsackle virus cause diabetes. Because I had borderline fasting sugars 2 years before I was diagnosed, then got a very evil tummy virus for a week and then got diagnosed with diabetes a month later.

[foxl]

Wow interesting. thanks for sharing. I wonder if multiple attacks of the coxsackle virus cause diabetes. Because I had borderline fasting sugars 2 years before I was diagnosed, then got a very evil tummy virus for a week and then got diagnosed with diabetes a month later.

Oho! I bet that virus was it ... the working hypothesis seems to be that our beta cell mass roller-coasters for YEARS if not decades before diagnosis, with LADA, and only when it falls below a certain level is it detectable through our blood glucose levels ... I can see where a periodic infection would up production of GADAs leading to periods of crisis.

If I can find that article in the public domain I will post a link, but I think it was in our library's purchased collection ..