Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Åke Lernmark - Lunds universitet
Helena Larsson - Lund University
Description
Step 1. Investigation of hereditary risk for diabetes type 1 in all new born children in Scania. This step continued from September 2000 to September 2004. In this step almost 36,000 children.
Step 2.. Follow up in a group of children with hereditary risk. Participants in the follow up study lefts a blood sample and answer a questionnaire one time per year.The plan is to follow these children up to 15 years of age.
Purpose:
To determine factors that can predict autoimmune (type 1) diabetes in children.
Research principal
Unit of analysis
Time period(s) investigated
2000-09 – ongoing
Geographic spread
Geographic description: Scania
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
children, insulin, diabetes mellitus, type 1, epihealth_skåne, scania, ia-2, znt8, gad65, ambient exposure, viral infections, epihealth
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Åke Lernmark - Lunds universitet
Helena Larsson - Lund University
Time period(s) investigated
2000-09 – 2004-09
Number of individuals/objects
36000
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Åke Lernmark - Lunds universitet
Helena Larsson - Lund University
Time period(s) investigated
2002 – 2019-08
Number of individuals/objects
5000