Results of blood pressure screening in a population of school-aged children in the province of Milan: role of overweight.

Objectives: To study the prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) in an Italian paediatric population, and to verify whether in this population elevated BP values are associated with overweight (OW).

Study Design: Children (1206 males, 1210 females) from the lower-grade public schools (ages 6-11 years) were studied. Body weight, height and BP were measured in each child.

Six months of gluten-free diet do not influence autoantibody titers, but improve insulin secretion in subjects at high risk for type 1 diabetes.

Removal of gluten from the diet can attenuate the intensity of autoimmunity and reduces the incidence of diabetes in the nonobese diabetic mouse. In this study, we tested whether a gluten-free diet could reduce autoimmunity in human preclinical type 1 diabetes. A trial consisting of 6 months of a gluten-free diet followed by another 6 months of normal gluten-containing diet was performed in 17 first-degree relatives with at least 2 antibodies among islet cell antibodies, glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibodies, protein tyrosine islet antigen-2 autoantibodies, and insulin autoantibodies.