Drinking formula made from cow\u2019s milk may not put babies at higher risk of developing Type 1 diabetes, the first large international trial showed.<\/p>\n
Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.<\/p>\n
Previous studies have reported that early exposure to complex foreign proteins, such as cow\u2019s milk proteins, may increase the risk of Type 1 diabetes in young children with genetic risk for the condition.<\/p>\n
For the new study, the team led by University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, examined 2,159 infants from 15 countries with genetic risk for Type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow\u2019s milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.<\/p>\n
After breastfeeding, infants were either weaned to a special formula (extensively hydrolysed casein formula), with the cow\u2019s milk proteins split into small peptides (small pieces of the protein), or a regular cow\u2019s milk-based formula with intact cow\u2019s milk proteins.<\/p>\n
Infants were fed the study formula for at least two months until the age of six to eight months and at the same time were given no cow\u2019s milk proteins from any other food sources and were followed for over 10 years.<\/p>\n
The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, revealed that no association was found between children fed formula with whole-milk proteins or those with the proteins broken down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe study puts to rest the controversy regarding the potential role of cow\u2019s milk formula in the development of Type 1 diabetes,\u201d said Dorothy Becker, Professor at the varsity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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