[ XXXX -dependent @entity6 . Study and follow-up of 100 cases].

@entity1 @entity4051 @entity410 @entity6 @entity16 @entity2690 @entity772 @entity1723 @entity1270 @entity941 @entity4854
Clinical records of one hundred pediatric @entity1 affected by @entity1723 have been analyzed. All the @entity1 have been followed since the beginning of the disease and they have had a check up on average of four months (weight, height, blood pressure, @entity4051 , @entity2690 , Triglyceridemia, renal function were evaluated). The method of home-self-monitoring was applied. After four years, and periodically thereafter, microvascular abnormalities were evaluated in all the @entity1 by @entity941 angiography. @entity16 was evaluated only in symptomatic @entity1 by peripheral nerve conduction. The average follow up period was 6.1 years (range 1-20). RESULTS: the onset of the disease was expressed in 11% of the cases by @entity772 , in 14% by @entity1270 , in the remaining cases by @entity4854 only. The severity of initial symptoms has progressively and significantly decreased in the last years. In 7% of the subjects @entity6 affected more members of the same family (4 couples of siblings and 3 couples of parent- @entity1 ). An infection preceding the onset of the disease was present in the history of 23% of the cases. Islet cell antibodies were found in 83% of the studied cases at the onset of the disease. In 80 out of the 100 @entity1 a detailed history has been obtained about the occurrence of @entity1270 episodes after the first admission and about the occurrence of severe hypoglycemic crises ( @entity410 and/or @entity772 ). 17% of the @entity1 presented at least one @entity1270 episode after the first admission (the main cause was infection before 12 years of age, an emotional problem thereafter).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
