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Higher education tied to rare form of diabetes |
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People who attend college may be at greater risk of developing a less common form of diabetes associated with autoimmunity, new study findings suggest.
Among more than 56,000 adults living in Norway, those who reached university were nearly twice as likely as adults who did not finish high school to develop autoimmune diabetes - an adult form of the disease similar to the type 1 diabetes that typically manifests in childhood.
Clearly, higher education itself does not increase the risk of autoimmune diabetes, study author Lisa Olsson of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden told Reuters Health. Rather, these results suggest that people who go to university have some other factor in their lives that predisposes them to this type of diabetes, she explained.
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