Increased Adiposity at Diagnosis in Younger Children With Type 1 Diabetes Does Not Persist

Abstract

The report by Clarke et al. (1) showed that in pediatric type 1 diabetes, younger age at diagnosis was associated with higher BMI SD scores (SDSs); however, BMI SDSs did not change from 1976 to 2004. In patients longitudinally evaluated and grouped according to age at diagnosis, BMI SDSs were higher in the youngest age-group, while, 5 years later, anthropometric parameters were similar across the three groups. We report our results regarding BMI SDSs of 174 patients, 106 (60.9%) male and 68 (39.1%) female, insulin treated since diagnosis and followed between 1990 and …