hrp0098p3-48 | Diabetes and Insulin | ESPE2024

Influence of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine on the incidence of cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents in the Basque Country (last CCAA to withdraw vaccination in Spain)

Diez-Lopez Ignacio , Maeso Mendez Sandra , Gago Martin Ruth , Angel Ogueta Lana Miguel

Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease of autoimmune etiology that is highly prevalent in childhood. In the last decade, the possibility of using the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine for the treatment of this disease has been studied thanks to its immunomodulatory action. These authors published a few years ago an inconclusive work on the influence of the use of BCG on the number of cases observed in the CCAA in a smaller cohort (Bol S Vasco- Nav Pediatrician 202...