Increased Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Children and No Change in the Age of Diagnosis and BMI-SDS at the Onset - is the Accelerator Hypothesis not Working?

Barbara Wasyl-Nawrot Małgorzata Wójcik Joanna Nazim Jan Skupień Jerzy B. Starzyk

Published in: Journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology (2020)

These results do not corroborate an increase of type 1 incidence in paediatric population being associated with younger age of diagnosis and higher BMI-SDS. This implies that the accelerator hypothesis does not hold true in the study population.

Keyphrases

type diabetes
body mass index
risk factors
intensive care unit
young adults
weight gain
emergency department
cardiovascular disease
insulin resistance
adipose tissue