New research published in 'Diabetologia'-the magazine of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)-shows that new cases of type 1 diabetes are increasing by 3.4 percent throughout Europe throughout.If this trend continues, it would double in the next 20 years, according to the conclusions of the study, coordinated by Professor Chris Patterson of the Public Health Center of the 'Queen's University Belfast', the United Kingdom.
In a context of an almost universal increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes in childhood, recent reports of some countries suggest a slowdown in this increase.Occasional studies also describe cyclic variations in the incidence, with periodicities between 4 and 6 years.In this new work, the authors analyzed the standardized incidence rates by age/sex for the age group from 0 to 14 years with data from 26 European centers (representing 22 countries) who have registered newly diagnosed individuals in geographically defined regionsover 25 years during the 1989-2013 period.
The data showed significant increases in the incidence in all except two small centers, with a maximum increase of 6.6 percent annually in a Polish center.Several centers in high incidence, including Finland and Norway, together with two centers in the United Kingdom, showed reduction rates in recent years.Despite this, a joint analysis in all centers revealed an annual increase in the incidence rate, although it suggested a reduction in the increase rate in the period 2004-2008, where it fell to 1.1% annual.
Similar increases in both sexes
The increase rates were similar in boys and girls in the age group from 0 to 4 years (3.7 percent annually in both) and in the age group of 5 to 9 years (3.4 and 3.7 perone hundred per year, respectively), but were older in boys than in girls in the age group of 10 to 14 years (3.3 and 2.6 percent per year, respectively).A significant four-year periodicity was detected in four centers (Germany-Sajonia, Germany North-Westphaly, Switzerland and the United Kingdom Oxford).
The authors say: "The increasing number of children diagnosed with this chronic disease, which is associated with increases in well -documented morbidity and mortality and for life, has important implications for those who plan and supply medical attention. The limited success toThe time to identify if it is due to environmental causes or gen-environment interactions, which could eventually lead to disease prevention, means that you have to continue working to improve the quality of care to help reduce long-term complications anddeaths related to diabetes. "
And they add: "The key to this is to improve the control of blood sugar that will be achieved not only with more sophisticated methods of insulin administration, but also with a greater investment in services to provide support to well -trained and dedicated care equipmentwith a sufficient number to meet the growing needs of this group of children and their families. "
