MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR, cilt.20, ss.1176-1179, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is an autoimmune disease with chronic complications that is becoming more frequent as life expectancy of diabetics has increased owing to improved methods of detection and better management. In this study, we investigated whether the presence of autoimmunity can be used in predicting the development time of microvascular complications.