The emerging global epidemic of type 1 diabetes

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 795-804

  Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^a,b,c,d  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ IDIPAZ   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Age at onset; Epidemiology; Familial aggregation; Geographic difference; Global epidemic; Incidence variation; Temporal trends; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84889077399     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-013-0433-5     Document Type: Article

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