Increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in Israeli children following the Second Lebanon War

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 326-333

  Zung, Amnon ^a   Blumenfeld, Orit ^b   Shehadeh, Naim ^c   Dally Gottfried, Orna ^d   Rakover, Yardena Tenenbaum ^e   Hershkovitz, Eli ^f   Gillis, David ^g   Zangen, David ^g   Pinhas Hamiel, Orit ^h,n   Hanukoglu, Aaron ⁱ   Rachmiel, Marianna ^j   Shalitin, Shlomit ^k   Bistritzer, Zvy ^j   Vardi, Pnina ^l   Koren, Ilana ^l   German, Alina ^l   Strich, David ^l   Terespolsky, Nachum ^l   Landau, Zohar ^i,n   Weiss, Ram ^g   Admoni, Osnat ^e   Barhum, Mary ^e   Jaffe, Anat ^m   Zadik, Zvi ^a   Burundukov, Ella ^a   Graf Barel, Chana ⁿ   Karp, Moshe ⁿ   Mazor Aronovitch, Kineret ⁿ   Frumkin, Rachel ^k,n   Gottfries, Orna Dally ^d   Moses, Dalit Modan ^h   Levi Shraga, Yael ^h   Brill, Gherta ^h   Ben Ami, Michal ^h   Landau, Heddy ^h   Philip, Moshe ^k   Lazar, Liora ^k   Vries, Liat De ^k   Nimri, Revital ^k   Lebenthal, Yael ^k   Tenenbaum, Ariel ^k   Josef, Meyerovitch ^k   Hirsch, Harry J ^o   Levy, Floris ^f   Leventhal, Neta ^p   Haim, Alon ^p   Weintrob, Naomi ^q   Ory, Eyal ^q   Even, Lea ^r   more..

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c MEYER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d Rivka Ziv Hospital   (Israel)

^e HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^h SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

ⁱ WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^j ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^k SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^l CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^m HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

ⁿ Maccabi Juvnile Diabetes Center   (Israel)

^o SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^p TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^q WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^r Israel Pediatric Endocrinology Association   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Children; Incidence; Psychological stress; Type 1 diabetes; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNICITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ISRAEL; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SUMMER; TREND STUDY; WAR; WINTER; INCIDENCE; MENTAL STRESS; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALE; SEASONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 84861675730     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2011.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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