ESPE2023 Poster Category 1 Diabetes and Insulin (55 abstracts)
Dietary Intake in Children and youth with Type 1 Diabetes from Different Ethnic Backgrounds and its Relation to Different Metabolic Parameters
Eliyahu M. Heifetz 1 , Carmit Avnon- Ziv 2 , Adi Auerbauch 2 , Tal Dagan 2 , Karen Hershkop 2 & Floris Levy-Khademi 2,3
1JCT - Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel. 2Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. 3Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Background: Medical nutrition therapy is one of the cornerstones of the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Nutrition is affected by many factors including ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and culture.
Objectives: To evaluate the nutritional status in a cohort of children with type 1 diabetes from different ethnic backgrounds and to seek differences among the groups. In addition determine the effect of nutrition on metabolic parameters in these children.
Methods: A cross sectional study from the diabetes clinic in Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Dietary intake was assessed using food frequency questionnaire adapted to Israeli dietary habits.
Results: The study included 147 children with type 1 diabetes (52.4% males). The mean age of the children was 13.1 years with mean diabetes duration of 4.2 years. The cohort consumed an average daily 1384.2 Kcal, 182.2-gram carbohydrates, 55.1-gram protein and 54.8-gram fat. There was a statistically significant difference in the intake of different nutrients between the Jewish and the Arab Muslim population but not between different Jewish sub populations. We did not find a correlation between the nutrient intake and body mass index, HBA1c, lipid profile and blood pressure.
Conclusions: Nutritional patterns of Israeli children from different ethnic populations are diverse. This variability must be considered when providing medical nutritional therapy to these populations.
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