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Incidence of type 1 diabetes in childhood before and after the reunification of Germany--an analysis of epidemiological data, 1960-2006.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Sept 2012
Ehehalt S, Neu A, Michaelis D, Heinke P, Willasch A M, Dietz K
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of rapidly changing environmental factors on the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). METHOD: We compared the frequency of T1D in children before and after the reunification of Germany by means of the registries of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1960-1989) and of Baden-Wuerttemberg (BW, 1987-2006). The number of cases of diabetes onset in East Germany after the...
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