ESPE Abstracts

Introduction and Aim: The Incidence of Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) varies markedly between populations and over time. Recently a number of high incidence countries, including Ireland, have reported a stabilisation and/or reduction in their T1DM incidence rate (IR) in childhood. Ireland, a high incidence country for T1DM, experienced a dramatic increase in T1DM incidence between 1997 and 2008, a stabilisation in incidence between 2014 and 2018 followed by a...

Aim: The Irish Childhood Diabetes National Register (ICDNR), established in 2008, prospectively collects robust data to monitor the epidemiology of Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children up to the age of 15 years. It is well recognised that the incidence of T1DM in children differs over time and between populations. The recent IDF atlas noted Ireland to have the 10th highest reported T1DM incidence globally. In the Irish population, similar to ...