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Does the time of diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes have a seasonal variation?

✍ Scribed by Muzulu, SI ;Jagger, C ;McNally, PG ;Burden, AC

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
247 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1357-8170

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Abstract

This prospective, observational study from 1987 to 1990 inclusive, set in hospital diabetes clinics in Leicester City, England (population 287,000), sought to establish whether or not Type 2 diabetes has a seasonal variation in incidence. The dates of diagnosis of 833 newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetic patients were recorded and total monthly incidence over the four year period calculated. Seasonal incidence was assessed by the Edward's test and the test for uniformity on a circle. No seasonal variation in the incidence of Type 2 diabetes was demonstrated, X^2^=4.32, p=0.11 and X^2^=3.32, p=0.19 respectively. These findings suggest that, unlike Type 1 diabetes, seasonality plays no significant role in the presentation of Type 2 diabetes. No increase in health care provision is required to cope with seasonal variation in Type 2, unlike that for Type 1 diabetes.

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Objectives (a) To study whether there was an increased prevalence of glucose intolerance in the parents of probands with Type 1 diabetes and (b) to look for any possible link between the glucose intolerance in the parents with HLA-DQB1 alleles transmitted in excess to the Type 1 diabetes offspring.