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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2, 479 (1 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0256

Diet influences the development of advanced |[beta]|-cell autoimmunity in children

Virtanen SM et al. (2006) Age at introduction of new foods and advanced beta cell autoimmunity in young children with HLA-conferred susceptibility to type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia 49: 1512–1521 A large, prospective, population-based trial in Finland that investigated the influence of breast-feeding and age at introduction of supplementary foods on the development of β-cell autoimmunity has contradicted the findings of published studies.