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The ‘accelerator hypothesis’: relationship between weight, height, body mass index and age at diagnosis in a large cohort of 9,248 German and Austrian children with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Ina Knerr, Johannes Wolf, Thomas Reinehr, Rainer Stachow, M. Grabert, Edith Schober, Wolfgang Rascher, Reinhard W. Holl

Diabetologia · 2005 · 178 citations · 17 references

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Body mass index reference curves for the UK, 1990.

Tim Cole, Jenny Freeman, M A Preece · Archives of Disease in Childhood · 1995 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Trends in the incidence of childhood-onset diabetes in Europe 1989–1998

A. Green, Christopher Patterson · Diabetologia · 2001 · 380 citations · Full text

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

Elina Hyppönen, Suvi Μ. Virtanen, Michael G. Kenward et al. · Diabetes Care · 2000 · 283 citations · Full text

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The incidence of Type I diabetes has not increased but shifted to a younger age at diagnosis in the 0–34 years group in Sweden 1983 to 1998

Austė Pundziūtė-Lyckå, Gisela Dahlquist, L. Nyström et al. · Diabetologia · 2002 · 232 citations · Full text

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Testing the Accelerator Hypothesis

M S Kibirige, Brad Metcalf, R. Renuka et al. · Diabetes Care · 2003 · 195 citations

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