Abstract
Background:
Data on the growth of diabetic children is conflicting. The aim of this study was to create and validate acceptable body mass index (BMI)-standardized percentiles and curves applied to Egyptian prepubescent diabetic children.
Methods:
The cross-sectional study comprised 822 prepubescent children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), whose ages ranged from 3 years to 10 years±6 months. An anthropometric assessment for each child was performed: body weight, height and BMI were calculated (weight [kg]/height [m2]), and glycated hemoglobin levels were determined. Means±standard deviations (SDs) and the smoothed percentiles of the BMI from age 3–10 years, by sex, for total, controlled and uncontrolled diabetic children were calculated. Comparisons of the 50th percentiles for the controlled and uncontrolled diabetic children, by sex, with those of the Egyptian and World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves were made.
Results:
For controlled diabetic males and females, the 50th percentile BMI was higher than those of the Egyptian and WHO growth curves, while differences in BMI were recorded for uncontrolled diabetic males and females. For uncontrolled diabetic males, the BMI was lower than the standard Egyptian and WHO growth curves up to 5 years of age, after which it became higher than the standard WHO and lower than the standard Egyptian growth curves from 5 years up to 10 years of age. Contrary to that, the BMI of uncontrolled diabetic females was higher than the standard Egyptian and WHO growth curves up to 6.5 years, between the curves from 6.5 years up to 7.5 years and then became lower than both curves up to 10 years of age.
Conclusions:
Children with T1DM should use their own BMI percentiles and never be compared with normal healthy children.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge our institute the National Research Centre, Egypt; without its support, this study could not have been done. We would also like to acknowledge the children, who were the participants of this study, and their parents and all the medical centers from where data were collected for their cooperation. Without their help, this study could not have been completed.
Author contributions: Nayera E. Hassan conceived and designed the study, Sahar A. El-Masry analyzed and interpreted the data and Aya Khalil collected the data. All authors contributed to the collection of references, drafting of the article and final approval of the version to be submitted. All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Standard body mass index reference data of prepubescent diabetic Egyptian children
- Frequency and risk factors of depression in type 1 diabetes in a developing country
- Association of obesity and health related quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents: the Weight Disorders Survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
- Association between urinary phthalates and metabolic abnormalities in obese Thai children and adolescents
- A pilot study of the effect of human breast milk on urinary metabolome analysis in infants
- Assessment of the correlation between the atherogenic index of plasma and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents: might it be superior to the TG/HDL-C ratio?
- Cardiovascular and metabolic risk in pediatric patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21 hydroxylase deficiency
- Application of povidone-iodine at delivery significantly increases maternal urinary iodine but not neonatal thyrotropin in an area with iodine sufficiency
- Influence of topical iodine-containing antiseptics used during delivery on recall rate of congenital hypothyroidism screening program
- Applying targeted next generation sequencing to dried blood spot specimens from suspicious cases identified by tandem mass spectrometry-based newborn screening
- Short Communication
- Initial patient choice of a growth hormone device improves child and adolescent adherence to and therapeutic effects of growth hormone replacement therapy
- Case Reports
- An occult ectopic parathyroid adenoma in a pediatric patient: a case report and management algorithm
- Fetal goitrous hypothyroidism treated by intra-amniotic levothyroxine administration: case report and review of the literature
- Carotid intima media thickness in a girl with sitosterolemia carrying a homozygous mutation in the ABCG5 gene
- Sirolimus in the treatment of three infants with diffuse congenital hyperinsulinism
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Standard body mass index reference data of prepubescent diabetic Egyptian children
- Frequency and risk factors of depression in type 1 diabetes in a developing country
- Association of obesity and health related quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents: the Weight Disorders Survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
- Association between urinary phthalates and metabolic abnormalities in obese Thai children and adolescents
- A pilot study of the effect of human breast milk on urinary metabolome analysis in infants
- Assessment of the correlation between the atherogenic index of plasma and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents: might it be superior to the TG/HDL-C ratio?
- Cardiovascular and metabolic risk in pediatric patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21 hydroxylase deficiency
- Application of povidone-iodine at delivery significantly increases maternal urinary iodine but not neonatal thyrotropin in an area with iodine sufficiency
- Influence of topical iodine-containing antiseptics used during delivery on recall rate of congenital hypothyroidism screening program
- Applying targeted next generation sequencing to dried blood spot specimens from suspicious cases identified by tandem mass spectrometry-based newborn screening
- Short Communication
- Initial patient choice of a growth hormone device improves child and adolescent adherence to and therapeutic effects of growth hormone replacement therapy
- Case Reports
- An occult ectopic parathyroid adenoma in a pediatric patient: a case report and management algorithm
- Fetal goitrous hypothyroidism treated by intra-amniotic levothyroxine administration: case report and review of the literature
- Carotid intima media thickness in a girl with sitosterolemia carrying a homozygous mutation in the ABCG5 gene
- Sirolimus in the treatment of three infants with diffuse congenital hyperinsulinism