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 ...