Circumstances around pediatric and teenager's diabetic in the south of Iraq

Abstract EN

The aim of This study was planned to estimate the conditions surround theprevalence of diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents, less than18 years ofage throughout the period of (October 2012 - May 2013) in the Nasiriya city.

Materials and methods: (100) children and adolescents, the ages range between(1-18) years, male and female previously diagnosed for at least (3) months withType 1 diabetes (DM-1), according to age, gender, area, onset of disease, crisesnumber, genetic risk factors, family economical level, clinical features, bloodparameters were included in the study.

The results: In the present study, diabetes mellitus affects(34% ) at age of 1 dayto 1 year, and(44% _ of the patients at the age of (1-5) years and(69% ) of family'spatients have a mild economical level, and the majority of samples that didn'tfound crisis(53% ).

Showed the majority of the samples non genetic related riskfactors(68% ).