High Paternal Age is Causing More Type 1 Diabetes in non-Hispanic White Children and Other Children in my Opinion As Well as More Autism etc.

: Diabetes Care. 2007 Mar;30(3):503-9. Links
Increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in 0- to 17-year-old Colorado youth.Vehik K, Hamman RF, Lezotte D, Norris JM, Klingensmith G, Bloch C, Rewers M, Dabelea D.
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the long-term trends in the incidence of type 1 diabetes among non-Hispanic white and Hispanic youth aged 0-17 years from Colorado using data from the Colorado IDDM Study Registry (1978-1988) and SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth (2002-2004). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Cases of diabetes were ascertained through physician reporting and hospital databases. Type 1 diabetes was defined as use of insulin within 2 weeks from diagnosis. Completeness of ascertainment was estimated as 97%. Annual average incidence rates (per 100,000/year) and 95% CIs for the time periods were computed. Trends in incidence were assessed by Poisson regression. RESULTS: The incidence of type 1 diabetes was 14.8 (95% CI 14.0-15.6) in 1978-1988 and 23.9 (22.2-25.6) in 2002-2004 for the state of Colorado (P < 0.0001). From 1978 to 2004, the incidence of type 1 diabetes increased by 2.3% (1.6-3.1) per year (P < 0.0001). The increase in incidence was significant for both non-Hispanic white (2.7% [95% CI 1.9-3.6] per year, P < 0.0001) and Hispanic youth (1.6% [0.2-3.1] per year, P = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of type 1 diabetes has increased 1.6-fold among Colorado youth from 1978-1988 to 2002-2004, and both non-Hispanic white and Hispanic youth are affected by this trend.

PMID: 17327312 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]





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Posted : Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:14:00GMT
Author : Anne Roberts




According to a study, the results of which were published in the June 27 issue of JAMA, Type 1 diabetes which is the most common type of diabetes in children is found to be most prevalent in non Hispanic white youth.

These findings were presented at a JAMA media briefing in New York by Colorado University's Health Sciences Center's Dana Dabelea, M.D., Ph.D.

The study was conducted by Dabelea, who, along with her team members in the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group, assessed incidences of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Americans even younger than twenty years of age.