Abstract
AbstractAim To evaluate the presence of skin diseases in diabetic children and adolescents and analyse the risk factors involved.Background There are few studies in pediatric population with type 1 diabetes mellitus and these present conflicting resultsSetting and Patients The Department of Pediatrics and Dermatology, University of Chieti, Italy. A group of 146 (86 female, 60 male) children. Their mean age ± SD was 13.9 ± 7.8 (range: 2.1‐18.0) years; their duration of disease was 10.7 ± 8.8 (range: 1.5‐17.3) years.Results Thirty‐six patients showed skin problems: the most frequent disease was skin infection, followed by necrobiosis lipoidica; this last disorder is linked to the presence of microvascular complications.Conclusions The skin problems were more frequent in children with long duration of disease than in patients with a duration less than 7 years. All the patients who had limited joint mobility showed sclerodema, Dermatological evaluation is strongly reccomended in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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