Publications by authors named "Osovik G"

Background: The importance of genetic and environmental factors in causing type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) in many European countries is unknown. We studied this question by assessing the incidence of the disease in children in Gomel, Belarus, in the years subsequent to the Chernobyl disaster, comparing it to the antecedent period.

Methods: We identified all new patients with DM1 under 15 years at onset who presented between 1976 and 1999; we used as denominator the number of children aged 0-14 born in Gomel, to calculate the incidence.

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