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ulf söderström, born 05/04/1947 in Stockholm. Degree of M.D. in 1975 at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Internship in pediatric medicine in Västerås, Västmanland. Specialist in Pediatric Medicine 1980. Since 1986 senior consultant in Pediatrics at the department of Pediatrics Mälarsjukhuset Eskilstuna, Sörmland. 2000 – 2005 senior consultant and main responsible for diabetes at the pedia-tric department Karolinska University Hospital/Huddinge. Clinical interest in diabetes and general pediatrics. Registra-tion for PhD student 07/06/2010 at Schoool of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University and simultaneously at Centre for Clinical Research Sörm-land, Uppsala University. Main research field type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents. First scientific paper of this thesis published in 2008.
Sweden is nowadays a country of immigration, one fifth of the population is of foreign descent. In all five studies comprising this thesis we have used the concept of migration of people as a broad exposure, complying change of environment and perhaps lifestyle.
We have, in the first three papers, assessed the risk of incurring diabetes (T1D) for children and adolescents born to immigrant parents. The last two papers assess the metabolical status at diabetes onset and after three years of treatment for children born to these parents.
issn 1652-4063 isbn 978-91-7529-010-2
Type 1 diabetes in children with
non-Swedish background
– epidemiology and clinical outcome
ULF SÖDERSTRÖM
Medical Science in Medicine/Pediatrics
2014