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The potential for helminth infections to modulate immune responses and reduce the incidence of autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
The simple idea that “ will kill parasites in the pancreas” is not supported by current evidence: parasitic infections can rarely involve the pancreas and can, in individual cases, impair pancreatic f...
A growing body of peer‑reviewed work explores links between parasitic infections and metabolic disease, with observational studies reporting higher prevalence of intestinal parasites in people with di...
Multiple peer‑reviewed systematic reviews and meta‑analyses, supported by case‑control, cross‑sectional and a small number of interventional human studies, have investigated the relationship between p...
are a biologically plausible path to treat metabolic disease: epidemiology, animal models, and early human studies link some worm exposures to improved insulin sensitivity, lipid profiles, and reduced...
The short answer: parasites do not cause diabetes as a general rule, but a growing body of research shows complex links — diabetics often have higher rates of intestinal parasitic infections in some s...