Could it be that children may develop diabetes during the winter more likely than in the summer months? This sounds crazy, but…

“Scientists believe that variations in blood sugar during colder months or an increased number of infectious diseases during the winter could be partly to blame for the link.”

Research has found that the results from studying 31,000 children treated at 105 centers across 53 countries are positively linked…the seasons and the illness in 42 of these participating centers proved there is a link.

This link between winter months and Type 1 diabetes, the most common form of the disease in children is not new discoveries.

Studies show that clinics treating diabetes that are further away from the equator are more likely to have greater numbers of new cases in winter.

In the journal, ‘Diabetic Medicine’, also suggest that winter cases were more likely to occur among boys and in older children, above the age of five.

“Elena Moltchanova, a statistician at the National Institute for Health and Welfare, in Helsinki, who led the study, said: “Numerous reasons have been suggested for the apparent seasonality of the onset of Type 1 diabetes.

“These include a seasonal variation in people’s levels of blood glucose and insulin, seasonal viral infections, the fact that young people tend to eat more and do less physical activity during winter months and, similarly, that summer holidays provide a rest from school stress and more opportunity to play outdoors.”

Type 1 diabetes develops when the body is unable to produce any insulin and usually appears before the age of 40.

It is distinct from Type 2 diabetes, the more common form, which occurs when the body becomes less sensitive to the hormone.

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