Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the commonest chronic disorders of children, and Type 1 DM is the most frequent form of diabetes in children. Rarely DM is associated with other systemic features. DM and sensorineural deafness (SD) are features of rare syndromes like Wolfram syndrome, Rogers syndrome and Mitochondrial DM. Wolfram syndrome (also known as DIDMOAD syndrome) is caused by los of function mutations in the WFS1 gene and the clinical features incl...