Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes: Month and Season of Birth. Implications for Etiology.
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- title
- Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes: Month and Season of Birth. Implications for Etiology.
- author
- Perdue, Letitia Howard
- abstract
Aims/hypothesis: The aim of this study was to investigate whether proportion of type 1 diabetic births differed by month and season. We hypothesized that more births occur during the spring and summer months in all populations, except in low-prevalence populations.- subject
- seasonality of birth
- type 1 diabetes
- contributor
- Wagenknecht, Lynne (committee chair)
- D'Agostino, Jr., Ralph (committee member)
- Poehling, Katherine (committee member)
- Snively, Beverly (committee member)
- date
- 2011-09-08T08:36:03Z (accessioned)
- 2012-09-08T08:30:07Z (available)
- 2011 (issued)
- degree
- Health Sciences Research (discipline)
- embargo
- 2012-09-08 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/36161 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis