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ea0011p298 | Diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular | ECE2006

Gender distribution in Ukrainian adult insulin-treated diabetics depending of age at diagnosis

Tronko M , Khalangot M , Kravcenko V , Kulchinska Y , Vaiserman A

Background: The male preponderance among 15–30 yrs old patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) was repeatedly described. All-age gender distribution assessment was not done yet because of the difficulties in the type of DM recognition in insulin-treated (IT) patients diagnosed after 30 yrs of age. The possibility of such assessment has arisen from the use of population-based DM registers by patients stratification depending of their disease history.<p class="abs...