Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The most striking change in diabetes over recent years has been the convergence of previously distinctive phenotypes. Recently diagnosed children are younger, taller and with greater BM. Pediatric endocrinologists are facing with children presenting mixed signs of both diabetes types. So called hybrid diabetes, or type 1½ has insulin resistance in type 1 phenotype and vice versa autoimmunity in obese children.Patients and methods: Ten ch...