The study is recruiting family members of people with type 1 diabetes because close relatives are 10 to 20 times more likely to develop the disease than are the general population.
Eligible volunteers receive free screenings and medical care.
Because only one to two percent of volunteers screened will qualify for the study, organizers hope to screen approximately 30,000 volunteers in the next 12 months to recruit the final 300 participants needed to complete the study's enrollment phase. DPT-1 Study Chair and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Between 500,000 and 1 million Americans have type 1 diabetes. About 30,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Although adults can get it, the disease typically strikes during childhood and adolescent years and is also known as juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes.