Volunteers needed for diabetes study

UCLA researchers are seeking pregnant women to enroll their newborn in a trial to reduce insulin-dependent diabetes in the genetically at-risk, also called TRIGR. Insulin-dependent (type I) diabetes must be present in one of the newborn’s immediate family members—either the mother, the father or a sibling—in order for the baby to be eligible for the study.

Researchers hope to learn whether avoiding intact cow milk proteins in the first six to eight months of life can decrease the incidence of type I diabetes by age 10 in genetically at-risk babies.

The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring this multi-center, international collaborative study.

A total of 2,800 subjects will be enrolled over a period of two to three years and will then be followed for a period of 10 years.

For more information, please call (310) 825-5487 or e-mail research coordinator Lisa Rogers at lrogers@ mednet.ucla.edu.