Regional differences in incidence and clinical presentation of type 1 diabetes in children aged under 15 years in Croatia (CROSBI ID 201212)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Stipančić, Gordana ; La Grasta Sabolić, Lavinija ; Požgaj Sepec, Marija ; Radica, Ana ; Škrabić, Veselin ; Severinski, Srećko ; Kujundžić Tiljak, Mirjana
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Regional differences in incidence and clinical presentation of type 1 diabetes in children aged under 15 years in Croatia
AIM: To determine regional differences in the incidence, incidence trends, and clinical presentation of type 1 diabetes in children under the age of 15 years in Croatia in a 9-year period (1995-2003). METHODS: We included the patients who had been diagnosed with the disease and had started the insulin treatment before they were 15 years old. Regional differences between eastern, central, and southern Croatia were observed. The gross incidence was expressed by the number of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients in 100000 children of the same age and sex per year, ie, for the 0-14 age group, and for the 0-4, 5-9, and 10-14 subgroups. RESULTS: The highest incidence was observed in southern Croatia (10.91 per 100000/y) and the lowest in central Croatia (8.64 per 100000/y), and in eastern Croatia the incidence was 8.93 per 100000/y. All three regions showed a growing incidence trend, which was significant only in eastern and southern Croatia. There was 35.9% of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis in eastern Croatia, 41.7% in central Croatia, and 31.28% in southern Croatia. CONCLUSION: Croatian regions show differences in the incidence, incidence trends, and disease presentation of type 1 diabetes. A further follow-up is needed to establish whether the regional differences are a consequence of the population dynamics in the observed period or they will continue to exist, pointing to differences in environmental risk factors.
diabetes mellitus ; clinical presentations ; regional diferences
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Podaci o izdanju
53 (2)
2012.
141-148
objavljeno
0353-9504
1332-8166
10.3325/cmj.2012.53.135
Povezanost rada
Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Temeljne medicinske znanosti