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Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Type1 Diabetes Mellitus in Basra

    Ban R Dohan Sawsan Habib Abbas Abd Khazal

The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 2021, Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 54-60
10.33762/mjbu.2021.127780.1027

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Background: Growth problems represent an important complication in children and adolescent with Type1 diabetes mellitus and poor metabolic control seems to impact their growth velocity.
Aim: to assess the nutritional status in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus, in relation to selected patients' variables.
Methods: a case-control study has been carried out to assess the nutritional status of sixty-one patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus; and eighty-two age and sex matched healthy children as control group; their ages ranged from 3-14 year, from the 1st of October 2016 till 15th of March 2017.
Results: The mean age of diabetic patients was (10.3±3.02) years; (60.66%) belong to large family size with low education. Diabetic patients significantly belong to families with poor financial support and income in (45.9%) compared to the control group (26.8%) (p value 0.02), as well as those undernourished diabetic children significantly belongs to families with poor income than those with normal nutritional status (75%, 38%) respectively. Body mass index was significantly below 5th percentile in diabetic patients than the controls (19.68 %, 2.4 %) respectively; P value 0.001. History of inadequate dietary intake was recorded in 66.67% of patients; significantly related to undernutrition in diabetics patients than controls (P value 0.002). Undernutrition in diabetic children significantly associated with poor glycemic control with significantly high level of HbA1c (13.9±9.57) than those without undernutrition (10.6±5.28) respectively.
Conclusions: Frequent evaluation of diabetic children is required to overcome the problem of undernutrition in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Keywords: Type1diabetes; Nutritional status; Children; Basra
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(2021). Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Type1 Diabetes Mellitus in Basra. The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 39(1), 54-60. doi: 10.33762/mjbu.2021.127780.1027
Ban R Dohan; Sawsan Habib; Abbas Abd Khazal. "Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Type1 Diabetes Mellitus in Basra". The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 39, 1, 2021, 54-60. doi: 10.33762/mjbu.2021.127780.1027
(2021). 'Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Type1 Diabetes Mellitus in Basra', The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 39(1), pp. 54-60. doi: 10.33762/mjbu.2021.127780.1027
Nutritional Status of Children and Adolescents with Type1 Diabetes Mellitus in Basra. The Medical Journal of Basrah University, 2021; 39(1): 54-60. doi: 10.33762/mjbu.2021.127780.1027
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