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About 1 in 4 children with type 1 diabetes do not know they have the disease until they develop diabetic ketoacidosis - a potentially life-threatening complication. But in a new study, researchers claim to have identified a chemical corning marker for type 1 diabetes in breathing children, paving the way for a breath test that allows early diagnosis. The research team, including Professor Gus Hancock corning of the Department of Chemistry at Oxford University in Britain, publish their findings in the Journal of Breath Research. According corning to the Control Centers for Disease (CDC), type 1 diabetes affects about 2 out of 1,000 children and adolescents, and the numbers are growing. A recent study found that between 2001 and 2009, the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children under 9 years of age increased corning by 21%. Type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed with a blood test, but Prof. Hancock notes that these tests can be traumatic for children. There are also some cases where type 1 diabetes are bad for children - an issue that was raised in a recent feature spotlight from Medical corning News Today. The symptoms of the disease, which include increased thirst and urination, fatigue and weight loss, can be seen as symptoms of other disorders. A 2008 study published in the journal Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, for example, found that among 335 children with new-onset diabetes type 1, doctors misdiagnosed initially provided in 16% of cases. In most of these cases, children incorrectly with respiratory tract infection. A delayed diagnosis means that some children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, when they have already developed diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This happens when a serious lack of insulin causes the body to burn fat for energy. This can lead to accumulation of acids called ketones in the blood, which may cause a diabetic coma and even death. In the latter study, however, Professor Hancock and his colleagues found that an aromatic ketone available through breathing - acetone - may be an early indication of ketone accumulation corning in the blood. Increased acetone breath associated with increased b hydroxybutyrate levels To reach their findings, the team collected breath samples from 113 children and adolescents aged 7-18 years who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes The researchers measured levels of acetone and a another ketone called isoprene in participants' breath and compared with ketone and glucose levels in the blood, measurements taken at the same time as breath samples were collected. Prof. Hancock and colleagues found that participants who had elevated levels of acetone corning in the breath also had elevated levels of ketone called beta hydroxybutyrate in the blood. The team found a weak correlation between increased acetone breath and increased blood glucose, but concluded that "only the acetone breath measurements do not provide a good measure corning of blood glucose levels in this group." Commenting on the results, Prof. Hancock says: "Our results showed corning that it is realistically possible to use measurements of acetone breath for estimating blood ketone. [...] If the relationship between the acetone breath and blood ketone levels are truth to higher levels of ketones, a simple breath test could help with the management of sick days in children corning with diabetes, prevent hospital admissions, providing a warning of possible Diabetic ketoacidosis development. "Prof. Hancock said that the MNT group has already produced a prototype of a small portable device for measuring ketone levels in the breath, which is currently being tested in clinical trials. "After clinical trials, we hope that this will be used by people with type 1 diabetes to check whether or not they are heading for Diabetic ketoacidosis, when they do not feel well," he said, adding that the device may also be able help early diagnosis of diabetes type 1 in children. Last month, MNT reported in a study in which researchers claim to have created billions of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from embryonic stem cells, paving the way for new treatments for diabetes 1. For the newsotherwise.gr Costas Voukelatos with infor-