Early infant diet and risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus in Belgrade children

Birthweight and the risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a meta-analysis of observational studies using individual patient data

“…The findings of this research seem inconsistent, as some studies have concluded that high birthweight is associated with increased diabetes risk [8] or reduced diabetes risk [9], while others have shown no association with type 1 diabetes risk [10]. Interpretation of these findings is made more difficult because studies have reported associations using many different categorisations of birthweight [8,[11][12][13][14], with some [15,16] only reporting findings for the extremes of birthweight and others [17][18][19][20][21] not reporting their birthweight results in any detail, concentrating instead on other findings. This could lead to reporting bias if the decision to report birthweight findings was influenced by whether or not results were interesting or 'statistically significant'.…”

Breastfeeding Protects Against Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Case–Sibling Study

“…In another case-sibling study with only 68 siblings and 105 cases of T1DM, the results found did not support the hypothesis that infant diet is related to the occurrence of T1DM. 11 Other studies have found no relationship between T1DM and breastfeeding. 22,23 Systematic review has pointed to a slight protection due to breastfeeding but little firm evidence of the significance of nutritional factors in the etiology of T1DM.…”

“…10 To the best of our knowledge only two case-sibling studies have evaluated the protective effect of breastfeeding against TIDM, and they showed discordant results. 11,12 Our aim in this study is to evaluate whether prolonged breastfeeding can provide added protection against T1DM, using a case-sibling design in which one affected sibling is matched with one unaffected sibling.…”

Health effects of cow’s milk consumption in infants up to 3 years of age: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Seven case-control studies (with a total of 2007 cases and 8455 controls) investigated the association between the age of introduction of cow's milk and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) (37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43) . In the adjusted analyses, all but one study (39) consistently showed no difference in the risk for T1DM due to early introduction of cow's milk, starting from birth or after 3, 5, 7 or 11 months.…”