Obesity, increased linear growth, and risk of type 1 diabetes in children.

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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of obesity and linear growth on the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in children. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The study population consists of all diabetic children 120%) after 3 years of age was associated with a more than twofold risk of developing type 1 diabetes. CONCLUSIONS: The present observation that obesity and rapid linear growth are risk factors for type 1 diabetes in children indicates that the increase in the prevalence of obesity and secular growth that has occurred in most industrialized countries over the last decades may be involved in the increase in type 1 diabetes incidence simultaneously observed in many countries.

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