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Researchers identified rural clusters in Sweden where diagnoses of type 1 diabetes were higher than the expected number.

More studies are needed to assess how environmental and lifestyle factors impact risk.

People who live in rural areas may be more likely to develop type 1 diabetes , according to data that will be presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

In a population-wide analysis of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Sweden from 2005 to 2022, researchers identified four areas where the number of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes was higher than the expected number, all of which were rural areas . Conversely, the areas where the number of type 1 diabetes diagnoses were lower than the expected number were all locat

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