ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2017;40:1034-1040Researchers from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia as well as scientists from institutions from three different continents, America, Europe and Australia have combined their data from large diabetes registries in order to: examine the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in populations of patients with T1DM; investigat...

Brief summary: This international multicentre study collected data from 104 290 children and adolescents (6 months-18 years-old), to compare prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prevalence of DKA at T1D diagnosis increased from 27.3% pre-pandemic to 39.4% during the pandemic, and the increased trends were associated with the pandemic containment measures.DKA is a life-thr...