Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Lifestyle, exercise and diet vary hugely between summer and winter months population-wide. We compared diabetes control in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D), during summer and winter months.Methods: All children under 18 years with T1D attending our diabetes clinics were eligible. Those diagnosed within one year, changed insulin regimen between seasons or with incomplete data were excluded. Summer or winter months were defined by British ...

Introduction: Hypoglycaemic episodes (Hypos) can happen at any time in type 1 diabetes patients; sometimes quite unpredictably. Carrying ‘hypo supplies’ at all times is basic to good diabetes care; often delegated to parents for children with diabetes. The primary aim was to assess how this basic care activity is practised in real life; secondary aim was to correlate lack of hypo supplies with diabetes control or other patient characteristics.M...