Association of environmental markers with childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus revealed by a long questionnaire on early life exposures and lifestyle in a case-control study.

Background: The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D) incidence is rising in many countries, supposedly because of changing environmental factors, which are yet largely unknown. The purpose of the study was to unravel environmental markers associated with T1D.

Methods: Cases were children with T1D from the French Isis-Diab cohort.

[Kawasaki disease epidemiology in Guadeloupe].

Objective: To study the incidence of Kawasaki disease in the population of the French West Indies.

Methods: Fifty-six children where enrolled between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2000), in this retrospective study in Guadeloupe (French West Indies), according to the diagnostic criteria of the American Heart Association.

Results: There were 31 boys and 25 girls.