Does enterovirus infection increase the risk of Type 1 Diabetes in young children?
Enterovirus infection in early childhood is associated with an increased risk of developing Type 1 Diabetes.
We demonstrated that T1D incidence increased in children aged 0-6 years but decreased in adolescents aged 13-19 years in Taiwan. Enterovirus-infected subjects younger than 7 years had a higher risk of T1D than noninfected subjects.
Shih et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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