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ea0095oc9.7 | Oral Communications 9 | BSPED2023

Personalised carbohydrate prescriptions using individualised calculations prevent over prescribing carbohydrate to newly diagnosed children and young people with type 1 diabetes

Leal Catarina , Pemberton John , Kholi Anjanee

Introduction: The International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) 2022 Nutritional Guidelines recommend calculating carbohydrate requirements using an indivualised equation, such as the Schofield equation. Up to 2023, our centre used the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) 2011 guidelines that only require age to determine average carbohydrate requirements. The latest National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) showed our centr...