ESPE Abstracts

Aim: To identify clinical significance of enzymuria in early diagnosis of DN in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.Materials and methods: We examined 112 patients (47males/55 females) with type 1 diabetes mellitus. By the DN severity the patients were divided into following groups: with normoalbuminuria (NAU) (n=47), with microalbuminuria (MAU) (n=44) and with marked proteinuria (MP) (n=19). Ten healthy subj...

Objective and hypotheses: The work was initiated to assess functional condition of the kidneys and to study interrelation between ACE gene I/D polymorphism and stage of chronic kidney disease in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) in compliance with K/DOQI recommendations (2002).Method: We examined 120 children and adolescents with type 1 DM, 53 (44.2%) males and 67 (55.8%) females among them (mean age 13.8±0.24 years. GFR wa...