Changing concepts of the epidemiology of insulin-dependent diabetes.

doi:10.2337/diacare.8.1.s29

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Changing concepts of the epidemiology of insulin-dependent diabetes.

Diabetes care - 1 Jan 2000

Bennett P H

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Recent epidemiologic studies of the determinants and natural history of IDDM using HLA typing and detecting islet cell antibodies have shown that HLA-identical siblings of probands with IDDM are at extremely high risk of developing IDDM, and that islet cell antibodies and glucose intolerance usua...

Topics

Adolescent
Age Factors
Autoantibodies
Child
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Genotype
Glucose Tolerance Test
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
Humans
Infections
Islets of Langerhans
Risk
Seasons
Twins, Monozygotic

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