Abstract

LAGOS PADILLA, Karla Alejandra  and  BARRIENTOS GUEVARA, Sámuel Andres. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 1, TEGUCIGALPA-HONDURAS. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.1, pp.29-35. ISSN 2077-3323.

Introduction: Inside the problematic of the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of infant pathology, the poor education respect to how they develop and the lack of knowledge in relationship to the metabolic diseases, that entrails to this phenomenon, not being identificated by parents nor tutors of the infant, leading up as a risk factor to the development of these diseases and their complications that can be fatal. Objective: Know the age, genre and ethiology in which Diabetes Mellitus Type I is mostly presented inside the selected population. Identify the predisposing factors for its developing, initial symptomatology and most frequent complications. Results: The feminine gender with 27 cases presenting itself with a peak of incidence at 14 years compared with the male gender with 22 cases and a peak of incidence at 16 years. The most frequent etiology in both genre was autoimmune, representing 79% of the cases. Obesity was present in the 12%, in contrast with patients that didn't presented any risk factor (75%). In respect of initial symptoms; hyperphagia was the most frequent, followed up by polydipsia weight loss and polyuria. The principal complication was ketoacidosis with a 35% frequency. Conclusion: In the pediatric population with type I Diabetes Mellitus in Honduras, autoimmune etiology predominates, mostly developing in the feminine genre.

Keywords : Diabetes mellitus type 1; autoimmune; hyperphagia; obesity; ketoacidosis.

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