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ea0030p26 | (1) | BSPED2012

Co-morbidities in children and young people with type 1 diabetes: who is responsible for management?

Agarwal Suruchi , Matthew Verghese , Tapson Trudy , Gupta Sanjay

Introduction: Children and young people with type 1 diabetes are usually managed by multidisciplinary teams (MDT) based in secondary care. Many of them have co-morbidities, which may or may not be associated with diabetes. Presence of co-morbidity increases health care needs and costs. Such co-morbidities in adult patients with diabetes are primarily managed by the general practitioners (GP) (Struijs, Baan et al.; 2006). Our aim was to analyse the prevalence of co-morbi...