Article
Recent Expeditious Growth of Type 1 Diabetes in the Gulf Arab Countries
2021-08-13
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in the Arab world, particularly, oil and gas rich Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries has more than doubled in the last twenty years. Therefore, there is a dire need for careful systematic familial cohort studies, especially in high-risk populations. Several immunogenetic factors affect the pathogenesis of the disease. Genes in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) account f...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1559d7dc-f414-59ec-a9e5-310dfe0b906f
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202108.0283.v1
