One needs to maintain the integrity of the skeleton. One shortcoming of the study was that it only examined dietary calcium intake from five dairy products, instead of total intake. Also, it did not include supplements. Men should still get about 1,000 mg of calcium per day, whether from food or supplements, CNN said. The study is recruiting family members of people with type 1 diabetes because close relatives are 10-20 times more likely to develop the disease than are the general population.
Eligible volunteers receive free screenings and medical care.
Because only 1 percent-2 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 is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is supported by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the American Diabetes Association. More than 350 medical facilities in the United States and Canada are taking part in study recruitment. His research was sponsored in part by McNeil Consumer Healthcare. Dr. Williams presented his findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.