Is it possible to prevent type 1 diabetes?

Is it possible to prevent type 1 diabetes?

Anne Peters, MD, FACP, CDE (Professor and Director of Clinical Diabetes Programs, USC Keck School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Is it possible to prevent type 1 diabetes?; Is it possible to prevent type 2 diabetes?; What environmental factors contribute to diabetes? and more...

Type 1 diabetes, as far as we know, is not yet preventable. But there's a lot of research that's ongoing to try to find the genetics of type 1 diabetes, and also to try to find ways to prevent it. So it's something that's on the horizon, but unfortunately we have no way to prevent it at present.