ea0024oc4.1 | Oral Communications 4 (Brief Communications) | BSPED2010
McNally R
, Court S
, James P
, Pollock R
, Blakey K
, Begon M
, Cheetham T
Background: Environmental factors play a role in the aetiology of type 1 diabetes. A particular role for infectious exposures has been postulated. Temporal variation in incidence would be consistent with this hypothesis. We specifically aimed to test predictions of increasing incidence occurring among cases of type 1 diabetes in children (aged 014 years) that might arise as a result of an environmental mechanism.Subjects and methods: The study anal...