Does the secular increase in body mass in children contribute to the increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes?

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 9, Issue 3 PART 2, 2008, Pages 46-49

  Knip, Mikael ^a,b   Reunanen, Antti ^c   Virtanen, Suvi M ^b,c,d   Nuutinen, Matti ^e   Viikari, Jorma ^f   Åkerblom, Hans K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL STRESS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 44649145305     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2007.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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