The epidemiology of type 1 diabetes mellitus may provide insights into the pathogenesis of the disease.The aim of this work was to characterize the trend of the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in Romanian children aged from 0 to 17 years over a 10-year interval.Data regarding new cases were obtained from two sources: (1) The Romanian Childhood Diabetes Registry and (2) Records of the Medical Center "Cristian Serban", Buzias. The demographic data were retrieved from the National Institute for Statistics. The incidence was calculated for the age groups 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-17 years.A total of 3196 new cases, aged below 18 years, were found by both the sources. There were significant differences between the groups (p=0.012), the mean incidence being highest in the age group 10-14 years (9.6/100,000/year, 95

作者：Viorel, Serban；Stuart, Brink；Bogdan, Timar；Alexandra, Sima；Mihaela, Vlad；Romulus, Timar；Adrian, Vlad

来源：Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM 2015 年 28卷 3-4期