ESPE Abstracts

Objective: Lifetime risk of having Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus [T1DM] increases when having a blood relative with T1DM. A Finish study reports 12.2% and 11.9% of T1DMs having a first degree relative [FDR] and second degree relative [SDR] with T1DM[1]. Data from India regarding proportion of children with T1DM FDR/SDR is non-existent. Objective is to find out the same.Methods: We examined the electronic database of 902 T1DM ...