Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide with recent European data suggesting annual increases ranging from 0.6 to 9.3%, the overall rate being 3.9%. It was thought that the Republic of Ireland (ROI) had one of the lowest disease incidences in Europe. The first Irish study of T1DM incidence which provided a measure of case ascertainment, confirmed a high incidence rate (IR) at 16.6 per 100 000 placing this population, in the upper quartile ...