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JDRF Rallies for Continued Support of Diabetes Research during National Diabetes Awareness Month

“Thanks to significant research advances in recent years, people living with (T1D) type 1 diabetes have received better treatments and therapies. Scientists have made headway in uncovering the possible cause of type 1 diabetes, and in their efforts to find ways to prevent, treat, or reverse the autoimmune disease and its complications. Despite this progress, we still have a long road ahead of us to identify a cure that will eliminate type 1 diabetes once and for all,” said M. Marie Davis, Executive Director JDRF Greater Missouri and Southern Illinois Chapter.

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to a terrible disease.

·         T1D is an autoimmune disease that strikes both children and adults.  Unrelated to diet or lifestyle, T1D causes lifelong dependence on injected insulin and carries the constant worry of life-threatening complications like nerve damage, blindness, amputation, stroke, heart attack and kidney failure.  It requires intensive, never-ending management.  There are NO days off.  Insulin is a therapy.  It is NOT a cure.

JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

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