Abstract
Patients with chronic diseases manifesting in childhood, such as type1 diabetes, need to make an optimal transition from pediatric to adult medical care. This or transitionis achallenge for patients and their treatment teams, since metabolic control is often unstable at this time of life. Additional factors like the social environment, as well as concomitant diseases, also need to be taken into account and often represent hurdles to optimal therapy. Transition is an important process to guarantee good self-management of diabetes therapy and good outcomes in the long term. This review provides an overview and recommendations on the topic of transition in diabetes.
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