ESPE Abstracts

Background and Aims: The incidence and prevalence of childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D) increases all over the world. The disease is often combined with other autoimmune lesions. The most common is autoimmune thyroid diseases. The combination of several autoimmune diseases significantly worsens diabetes control in children with T1D. The aim of the study: to identify risk factors of autoimmune thyroid diseases in children with T1D based on the study of the feature...

Objective: to determine risk factors of co-existing thyroid autoimmunity in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DМ).Material and Methods: 48 children with combined autoimmune pathology (45 – with T1DМ and autoimmune thyroiditis and 3 – with T1DМ and Grave’s disease) – main group, age 12.51±3.57 years) and 99 patients with only T1DM (comparison group, age 11.76±3.05 years) w...