Childhood immunization is one of the major public health measures of the 20th century and
is now receiving special attention from the Clinton administration. At the same time, some …

Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects over a million Americans, and disease incidence is
on the rise. Despite decades of research, there is still no cure for this disease. Exciting beta …

Context: The discrepancies in terms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1-DQA1-DQB1
conferred risks between latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 1 diabetes …

This study was designed to examine the hypothesis that some environmental factors
increase the risk for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Data on dietary history was …

The Sardinian population has an extremely high incidence of IDDM (30.2 of 100.000 in the
age group of 0–14 years). This study reports the molecular characterization of HLA class II …

Background Although clinical manifestations of celiac disease may change throughout life,
clinical, histologic, immunologic, and genetic studies show that there are incomplete forms of …

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a 'chronic'autoimmune disorder leading to the destruction of
the pancreatic beta cell. The natural history of diabetes includes a long subclinical …

Aims/hypothesis: Most Caucasians with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus
develop an autoimmune form of diabetes known as Type IA diabetes, based on the …

Objective: Certain human leukocyte antigen (HLA)‐DR, DQ genotypes have been
associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) risk, although it is unknown whether the …

The traditional approach in epidemiology of relating exposure to an environmental agent
such as a drug or infective agent has been to measure an overall risk (ie, average and then …