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Prevalence of Insulin‐Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Asian Children
Author(s) -
Samanta A.,
Burden A. C.,
Jones G. R.,
Woollands I. G.,
Clarke M.,
Swift P. G. F.,
Hearnshaw J. R.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
diabetic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1464-5491
pISSN - 0742-3071
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-5491.1987.tb00832.x
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , population , demography , pediatrics , changeover , endocrinology , environmental health , engineering , transmission (telecommunications) , sociology , electrical engineering
A survey was conducted in 1984–85, within Leicester City boundaries, which contains 64 535 children below the age of 15 years (20 267 Asian and 44 268 White Caucasian) to ascertain the prevalence of insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) using a central register maintained for the changeover to U‐100 insulin, diabetic health visitor index cards, hospital admissions of diabetic children, and individual registers maintained by us. Overall prevalence per thousand for children aged 0–15 years was 0.54 for Asian and 0.99 for White Caucasians; for ages 10–15 years they were 0.97 and 1.87, and for ages 0–9 years, 0.31 and 0.18, respectively. This was not statistically different at the 5% level. Ours is the first population based study of its kind in Asian children, and challenges the view that there is a large difference in the prevalence of IDDM between Asians and White Caucasians. A wider analysis of this observation incorporating a large population base is suggested.