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. 2022 May 11;93(2):e2022163.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v93i2.11979.

Trend in the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) among Qatari and Arab gulf children and adolescents over the past 20 years

Ashraf T Soliman  1 , Vincenzo De Sanctis  2 , Nada Alaaraj  3 , Fawzia Alyafei  3 , Noor Hamed  3 , Shayma Ahmed  3
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Trend in the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) among Qatari and Arab gulf children and adolescents over the past 20 years

Ashraf T Soliman et al. Acta Biomed. .

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Figure 1.
Trend of type 1 diabetes mellitus incidence, in Qatari children and adolescents, from 2006 to 2020.
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