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Severe clinical onset of diabetes and increased prevalence of other autoimmune diseases in children with coeliac disease diagnosed before diabetes mellitus.
Diabetologia - 1 Dec 2002
Valerio G, Maiuri L, Troncone R, Buono P, Lombardi F, Palmieri R, Franzese A
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: To analyse whether the time of diagnosis of coeliac disease with respect to the clinical onset of diabetes could differentiate subgroups of varying severity in patients with both diseases. METHODS: We investigated 383 patients with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus for coeliac disease. Sex distribution, age at diagnosis of diabetes, prevalence of ketoacidosis at the onset of diabetes...
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