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Nutritional status of type 1 diabetic children of primary school age (6-12 years) attending national institute of diabetes and endocrinology
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Abstract
Background: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common endocrine and metabolic diseases in childhood. Self-Discipline and adherence to a balanced diet are necessary if the disease is to be well managed. Aim: Assessing to what extent T1DM can affect the nutritional status with the following objectives: to assess the dietary habits among children with T1DM and to study the risk factors implicated in malnutrition in these children. Methods: This study included 200 patients attending the Pediatric outpatient clinic in National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology. An anonymous, structured interview questionnaire was designed to collect data from the guardians regarding sociodemographic data and different feeding habits and patterns. Anthropometric measurements were obtained for all the cases, for which growth curves were plotted and compared to the WHO standards and laboratory investigations were performed. Results: The study showed the mean age of the patients to be 9.7 ± 1.9 years. The mean weight was 33.8± 8.8, the mean height was 1.35± 0.1 and the mean BMI was 18.2± 2.8, this in addition to the mean HbA1C of the studied patients was 10.3 ± 2.1. Stunting was found in 17 (8.5%) patients, wasting in 5 (2.5%) and 2 (1%) children were underweight. Overweight was found in 42 (21%) and obesity was present in 23 (11.5%) of our studied subjects. In our study the problem of malnutrition is evident in 88 (44%) of the studied subjects. No correlations were found between malnutrition and demographic factors, financial status. There was an excellent presence of nutritional knowledge among the children{u2019}s caregivers. There was no significant difference between receiving nutrition education message and nutritional status, p (0.06)