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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:538-539
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Diabetes

Commentary: Population mixing and childhood diabetes

Anthony Staines

Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University College Dublin, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland. E-mail: Anthony.Staines@ucd.ie

There has been a suspicion that Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes (IDDM) is due to an infection since the early years of the last century. This arose from the typical acute clinical presentation of the disease. The specific hypothesis was that IDDM was due to direct virally mediated immune destruction of the pancreatic islets. A number of case reports of IDDM as a consequence of overwhelming enteroviral infection, and the high risk of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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