Volume 11, Issue 12 pp. 1002-1004
RESEARCH LETTER

Type-1 diabetes onset age and sex differences between Ghanaian and German urban populations

加纳和德国城市人群中1型糖尿病发病年龄及性别的差异

Julia Seyfarth

Julia Seyfarth

Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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Osei Sarfo-Kantanka

Osei Sarfo-Kantanka

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana

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Joachim Rosenbauer

Joachim Rosenbauer

Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Düsseldorf, Germany

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Richard O. Phillips

Richard O. Phillips

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana

School of Medical Sciences and Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

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Marc Jacobsen

Corresponding Author

Marc Jacobsen

Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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Marc Jacobsen, Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany.

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First published: 17 August 2019
Citations: 4
Julia Seyfarth, Osei Sarfo-Kantanka, and Joachim Rosenbauer contributed equally.

Graphical Abstract

Highlights

  • Type 1 diabetes onset age in Kumasi/Ghana has a peak at around 17 to 20 years, whereas the peak is at 11 to 12 years in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • Higher proportions of females were found in the type 1 diabetes cohort from Ghana, and males were more frequent in the German cohort.

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