Understanding Diabetes: Early environmental determinants of pancreatic islet autoimmunity: a pregnancy to early life cohort study in children at risk of type 1 diabetes

This study is looking for the causes of type 1 diabetes, so that we can find ways to prevent it. Type 1 diabetes in children is twice as common as it was 20 years ago. This is because of the environment that we live in has changed and this has made it more likely for a child at risk to develop Type 1 diabetes. We are asking women who are pregnant and either have type 1 diabetes, or who have a family member with type 1 diabetes, who will be a first degree relative of the unborn child, to participate in the study. We will follow many women around Australia during pregnancy until early childhood, looking at the child's birth, environment and genes.