Special Section: Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus—Epidemiology, Aetiology, Pathogenesis and Prevention: the Changing Face of the Epidemiology of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM): Research Designs and Models of Disease Causation

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