ESPE Abstracts

Background: A diagnosis of diabetes in children used to mean type 1 diabetes (T1D) and lifelong insulin therapy. However, over the last decades the spectrum of diabetes has widened and even if auto immunity remains the most prevalent etiology, confounding factors and overlap with other causes of diabetes types sometimes make a revision of the initial diagnosis necessary.Objective and hypotheses: To classify diabetes etiologies in youth with diabetes usin...