Long-term patterns in seasonality of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus diagnosis in Austrian children

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-165

  Waldhoer, Thomas ^a   Schober, Edith ^a   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; Incidence; Nationwide population based; Poisson regression; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEASONS;

EID: 0030932318     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00334-4     Document Type: Article

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