Endocrine Abstracts

Very early in the Covid-19 pandemic it became clear that diabetes was a highly significant comorbidity with an increased risk of mortality in adults of up to 3.5 fold. At the same time, anecdotes started to circulate of an apparent unseasonal increase in incidence and severity of DKA in children and young people presenting with type 1 diabetes [T1DM]. In order to examine this further, the characteristics of children presenting with T1DM from January to July 2020 in North East ...

Background: Paediatric emergency departments saw an unusual increased incidence and severity of DKA in children with new onset diabetes in the COVID pandemic. The DIMPLES study (Diabetes Mellitus in children and young people presenting to the Emergency Department during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic) explored this using retrospective multicentre data from 49 EDs, providing a unique perspective of paediatric diabetes from the frontline.Methods: We compared the ...

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Background: Population data has shown an increased incidence in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) following pandemic influenza A (H1N1). Worldwide studies have shown an increase in the incidence of T1DM in 2020 and 2021. Both locally and regionally in Northern Ireland we noticed a similar increase and decided to investigate further.Method: From March 2021 we tested newly diagnosed T1DM patients in Antrim Area Hospital for Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. If ant...

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