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THE INCIDENCE OF DIABETES MELLITUS IN SWEDISH CHILDREN 1970–1975
Author(s) -
STERKY G.,
HOLMGREN G.,
GUSTAVSON K. H.,
LARSSON Y.,
LUNDMARK K. M.,
NILSSON K. O.,
SAMUELSON G.,
THALME B.,
WALL S.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1978.tb16293.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , diabetes mellitus , pediatrics , demography , retrospective cohort study , epidemiology , surgery , endocrinology , physics , sociology , optics
. report a retrospective study of diabetic children, 0–14 years of age, from seven Swedish departments of paediatrics. There were 359 new cases in the years 1970–1975. Notification suggested that there was a mean yearly incidence of 19.6 cases per 1 with a year to year variation of 10.0–26.4 per 1. Consequently about 330 new cases of childhood diabetes would be expected in Sweden every year. Incidence varied considerably between different geographical areas. The age distribution was bimodal with a main peak at about 12 years and another peak at about 7 years. There was some evidence for clustering of new cases in January and the autumn. The mean prevalence of childhood diabetes in the seven districts was 1.3 per 1000.