FIGURE 2.

Seasonal variation in diabetes onset among children aged 0.5–4 and 5–14 years. The between‐group analysis showed a significant difference in the distribution of diagnosis frequencies by season. There was a peak in the frequency of diagnoses during fall and a drop‐down during winter among the younger children while the older children were most often diagnosed in fall followed by winter (p = 0.019) (A). The phenomenon was more pronounced in the subgroup of boys (p = 0.020) (B) and not seen in the subgroup of girls (p = 0.347) (C). Significance was evaluated using cross‐tabulation and the χ ² test