Increased Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Children and No Change in the Age of Diagnosis and BMI-SDS at the Onset - is the Accelerator Hypothesis not Working?

• Principais autores: Barbara Wasyl-Nawrot (Autor), Małgorzata Wójcik (Autor), Joanna Nazim (Autor), Jan Skupień (Autor), Jerzy B. Starzyk (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Galenos Yayincilik, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective:One of the hypothesized reasons for the observed increase in type 1 diabetes incidence in children is weight gain, causing accelerated disease development in predisposed individuals. This so-called accelerator hypothesis is, however, controversial. The aim was to analyze whether, in the et...