Age at diagnosis, anthropometry and birthweight in two ethnically different cohorts of children with type 1 diabetes living in Northwest England or Singapore.

Aim: To compare children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) living in the Northwest England, United Kingdom (UK) or Singapore, and to correlate age at diagnosis with birthweight and anthropometry at T1D diagnosis.

Methods: We included 166 T1D children of white ethnicity in England (UK-White) and 185 T1D children of East-Asian ethnicity origin in Singapore (SG-Asian) who were born between 2002 and 2020.

Results: The cohorts from UK-White and SG-Asian children differed significantly in FH of T1D (p < 0.