Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of autoimmune thyroid and coeliac disease. Reported prevalence figures for thyroid and coeliac disease in this population has been reported in European studies as 3–8%1 and 1–10%2 respectively. Current NICE guidelines (June 2009) recommend screening for both conditions at diagnosis, and then screening annually for thyroid disease thereafter. We aimed to: i) estimate preva...