ESPE Abstracts

Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) being a chronic disease is likely to affect growth in children. Bone age helps in assessing the growth of child in relation to their skeletal maturity. Skeletal maturity is delayed in chronic systemic illness.Objective: To study growth in relation to bone age and chronological age in children with T1D.Methods: Study design: Prospective observationa...

Introduction: Poorly controlled type 1 diabetes affects the hypothalamic pituitary axis and is likely to have a negative impact on spermatogenesis and result in infertility. Further, a chronic complication of diabetes may also be angiopathy of testicular vessels. Thus, at our center for children with diabetes, testicular ultrasound evaluation is performed on adolescent boys with duration of diabetes> 2 years.Objective</strong...