Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: ‘Transition’ is the period of movement from paediatric to adult healthcare. These patients are in their adolescence when the brain is maturing, causing changes in behaviors including greater risk-taking. The period of transition can be associated with poor adherence to insulin and blood glucose monitoring regimens and an increased risk of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This study looks into how effective our transition programme has been at addressing thi...

Introduction: The Best Practice Tariff states that units must provide a structured education programme which should be ‘tailored to the child’s needs, both at the time of initial diagnosis and ongoing updates’. Traditionally, there has been poor uptake of our education sessions with attendance rates of 20% (range 0–30). Therefore, an integrated education clinic was introduced which combined education within a multidisciplinary (MDT) clinic session for ongoi...

Background: Previous reports suggest that epilepsy and autism are more common in children with autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes (T1D). While each condition is common in the general population, only small numbers of children have the two conditions together, so there is currently little coordinated support. We sought to describe the incidence in our own population.Methods: Retrospective review of the Diamond database and clinical notes for chil...