Finnish children have more type 1 diabetes and allergic symptoms

Friday, May 30, 2008 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

High living standards and the life style connected to them seem to promote the development of autoimmune diseases and allergic symptoms. This has lead to the assumption that the immune system begins to overreact to the organism's own structures or to exogenous non-infectious proteins, i.e. allergens, when it does not have to work hard enough to protect the individual from infections...

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