Infant growth and risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes in children from 2 Scandinavian birth cohorts

MC Magnus, SF Olsen, C Granström, G Joner… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Type 1 diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases with onset
in childhood, but environmental risk factors have not been convincingly established.
Objective To test whether increased growth during the first year of life is associated with
higher risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. Design, Setting, and Participants This is a
cohort study using information from 2 population-based cohort studies in Norway and
Denmark, the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and the Danish National …