Abstract
A retrospective study of the entire population of Israel revealed 392 newly diagnosed Type I diabetics aged 0-20 for the period 1975-1980. The mean annual age specific incidence of Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus was 3.8 per 105 for the age group 0-14 yrs and 4.2 per 105 for the age group 0-20 yrs. The incidence among the Jews of Ashkenazi origin was 658 × 105 and that for Jews of non-Ashkenazi origin was 4.3 × 105 , whereas that for the Arabs was 1.2 × 105 . The overall incidence is lower than that reported for similar populations in most European countries, the USA, Canada and New Zealand, similar to that reported for Arabs in Kuwait and higher only than that found in Japan. The highest proportion of patients was registered between ages 10-14 yrs and the lowest at 0-4. In the young age group there was a preponderance of females differing (p=0.05) from the ratio over age 5 which was almost 1. Out of 294 patients for whom month of onset could be established, 170 had their onset from November to March and 124 from April to October. The relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in the interpopulation differences in incidence of Type I diabetes remains to be established.
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Laron, Z., Karp, M. & Modan, M. Low incidence of Type I diabetes in Israeli children of all ethnic groups. Pediatr Res 18, 1220 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198411000-00115
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198411000-00115