SHEPHERDSTOWN - When Shepherdstown resident Angelina Gray was in her second trimester of pregnancy with her first child, she was tested - as all expectant mothers are - for gestational diabetes.

The lab results soon came back positive for diabetes - though not the short-lived variety typically experienced during pregnancy.

The previously healthy 20-year-old was diagnosed with having Type 1 diabetes - an autoimmune disease wherein the immune system destroys the beta cells in the pancreas. Without functioning beta cells to produce insulin - the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels - Gray's body all of a sudden needed to receive synthesized insulin to survive.

While Type 1 diabetes (T1D) typically has a genetic component behind its development, that was not the case for Gray, making h

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