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ea0024oc4.1 | Oral Communications 4 (Brief Communications) | BSPED2010

Cyclical variation in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children from northeast England

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 0–14 years) that might arise as a result of an environmental mechanism.Subjects and methods: The study anal...