EXPOSIÇÃO PRECOCE AO LEITE DE VACA E OCORRÊNCIA DE DIABETES MELLITUS TIPO 1 EM CAMPINA GRANDE PB

Abstract

The etiology of the Diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1) it involves as much the genetic inheritance as the exhibition to you factor environmental. Evidences of epidemic studies and you try they suggest that the diet can be important in the etiology of this disease. From 1984 several works they have been suggesting that the maternal milk is a protection factor for DM1; that effect would feel due to the anti-infectious properties of that type of milk, or for the fast that the breast-feeding to the breast would avoid that the children could be exposed precocious to other etiologic agents contained in the substitutes of the maternal milk. Those same discoveries were later found in several studies, but the paper of the maternal milk in the emergence of DM1 stayed controversial. More recently, in 1992, some researchers observed, among the diabetics, discharges concentrations of antibodies bovine anti-albumin. The authors postulated the hypothesis that the bovine albumin could act as unchaining of the destructive process of the beta cells of the pancreas and, consequently, of the diabetes. Contradictory results were observed in the publications that were happened the that. This research has as objective establishes the relationship among the precocious exhibition to the cow s milk and the occurrence of Diabetes mellitus type 1. The study is of the type case-control. 64 mothers of bearers of Diabetes mellitus type 1 and 64 mothers of controls were interviewed, fittings for neighborhood, sex, age and race. 84,4% (n=54) of the diabetic individuals were exposed to the cow s milk before the 4 months of age, while in the group control this percentile one was of 64,1% (n=41). There was a significant statistical relationship among the groups (X²=5,9; p=0,01). The Odds Ratio (OR) calculated it was of 3,03 (IC 95% = 1,21 7,72; p=0,01) between diabetics and controls. The observed results allow to establish a positive association among the precocious exhibition to the cow s milk and the occurrence of Diabetes mellitus type 1 in the studied population. This way, it is believed to be indicated, as form of preventing the emergence of the Diabetes mellitus type 1, the exclusive breast-feeding to the breast for at least four months, being avoided the precocious introduction, in the infantile feeding, of the cow s milk and yours derived