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Changing concepts of the epidemiology of insulin-dependent diabetes.
Diabetes care - 1 Jan 2000
Bennett P H
Abstract excerpt
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 usually appear long before clinical manifestations. Thus, the disease often has a long latent period. The epidemiologic...
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