Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Conditions
Keywords
dietary manipulation, infants, feasibility, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Beta-cell Autoimmunity
Brief summary
The overall objective of the study is to assess whether complete avoidance of cow's milk (CM) proteins, for at least the first 6 months of life, prevents type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM) in genetically susceptible children who have a mother, biological father or sibling affected by type 1 diabetes.
Detailed description
Among the environmental factors leading to type 1 diabetes in childhood, the most important are certain viral infections and possibly some dietary factors. Among the latter cow's milk proteins are of special interest. They have been shown to be involved in the pancreatic beta-cell lesion in animal experiments. In humans there are some indications of a role of early exposure to cow's milk proteins as a risk factor for later type 1 diabetes. The hypothesis has not been confirmed, but a randomized, controlled double-blinded intervention trial should provide a definite answer. This study aims at assessing whether one can decrease the future incidence of beta-cell autoimmunity and/or type 1 diabetes in children who have an increased genetic risk for the disease, by administering in infancy after breast feeding until the age of 6-8 months such a formula, in which the cow's milk proteins have been hydrolyzed to smaller peptides. The children in the control group, carrying a similar increased genetic risk, will receive a conventional cow's milk based formula . This project is a pilot multicenter trial comprising 15 hospitals in Finland.
Interventions
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENTA highly hydrolyzed formula
Weaning to a highly hydrolyzed formula, avoidance of all supplemental food containing cow's milk proteins and/or bovine serum albumin up to the age of 6-8 months
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENTA regular cow's milk based formula
Weaning to a regular cow's milk based formula supplemented with 20% of the highly hydrolyzed formula used in arm 1 to make the study formulas similar in smell and taste, avoidance of all supplemental food containing cow's milk proteins and/or bovine serum albumin
Sponsors
Academy of Finland
European Union
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Diabetes Research Foundation, Finland
Novo Nordisk A/S
University of Helsinki
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Days to 7 Days
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* the participant must have a mother, biological father or sibling with type 1 diabetes * the participant must carry a susceptible HLA genotype(HLA-DQB1\*02 and/or DQB1\*0302 without protective alleles (DQB1\*0301, \*0602 and \*0603)
Exclusion criteria
* no telephone * no accessibility to any of the research centers * inability of parents to understand the study and instructions * unwillingness/inability to feed the infant CM-containing food for any reason (e.g. religious, cultural reasons) * gestational age less than 36 weeks * Any severe illness such as chromosomal abnormalities, congenital malformations, respiratory failure, enzyme deficiencies of the newborn. * the newborn infant has received any cow's milk-based product prior to randomization
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Positivity for two or more diabetes-associated autoantibodies and/or clinical type 1 diabetes | 10 years |
Countries
Finland
Outcome results
None listed