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60th Annual ESPE (ESPE 2022)

Rome, Italy
15 Sep 2022 - 17 Sep 2022

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The 60th ESPE Annual Meeting will now be taking place in Rome, Italy.

Symposia

Microbiome and Metabolic Disorders

hrp0095s10.2 | Microbiome and Metabolic Disorders | ESPE2022

Type 1 Diabetes and The Microbiome

Knip Mikael

The conspicuous increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the Western world after World War II cannot be explained solely by genetic factors but suggests that this rise must be due to crucial interactions between predisposing genes and environmental changes. Three parallel phenomena in early childhood – the dynamic development of the immune system, the maturation of the gut microbiome and the appearance of the first T1D-associated autoantibodies – imply...