A Ten-Year Review of the Pattern and Outcome of Childhood Diabetes in Two State Teaching Hospitals in South-West Nigeria.
Isaac Oludare OluwayemiOlusola Adetunji OyedejiEmmanuel Oluwatosin AdenijiAdebukola Bidemi AjiteAdefunke Olarinre BabatolaAdewuyi Temidayo AdeniyiEzra Olatunde OgundareOladele Simeon OlatunyaTemitope Opeyemi AyeniAyotunde Emmanuel AjibolaPublished in: Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy (2020)
Type 1 DM remains the most predominant form of diabetes in children and most of the patients presented in DKA. The proportion of deaths in this study is unacceptably high. There is a need to proffer strategies for earlier detection and management of children with diabetes mellitus prior to the onset or development of DKA and there is a need to assist with the funding of the care of children with diabetes mellitus.