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- Title
Increasing incidence of pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus in Southeastern Wisconsin: relationship with body weight at diagnosis.
- Authors
Evertsen, Jennifer; Alemzadeh, Ramin; Wang, Xujing
- Abstract
Several studies have confirmed the increasing rate of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children and the link with increasing BMI at diagnosis termed the 'accelerator hypothesis'. Our objective was to assess whether changing incidence of type 1 diabetes in a group of children and adolescent from the Midwest United States was associated with changes in BMI.
- Publication
PloS one, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 9, pe6873
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0006873