Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Increase in global childhood obesity is considered to be one of the detrimental problems all across the world. It is well known that about every 1 in every 300-500 infants suffers from Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus. Obesity has been directly associated with elevation of blood sugar and HbA1c.

Objective: This study investigates the prevalence of obesity in Type-1 DM and the distribution of sex, age and its correlation with HbA1.

Methods: Transversal revision of Type-1 DM anthropometric measurements from patients at a selected general hospital in Bihar. Sex, age, weight, values of HbA1c were reviewed.

Results: Among the selected 60 subjects, 6 (10% participants) were underweight with BMI below 15 kg/m², 18 (30% participants) were also underweight, however, their BMI falls between 15 to 16 kg/m². 9 (15% of participants) were also underweight but in between BMI 16-18.5 kg/m². 24 (40% of participants) were in the normal range and their BMI was between 18.5-25 kg/m². HBA1c median was 9.44% with a standard deviation of 2.45%. Only one patient had a normal HbA1c value below 7%. Out of 60, 8% had between 7-8%, 22% patients had 8-9%, 22% had 9-10, 16% had 10-11, 4% had 11-12%, 14% had 12-13%, 10% had between 13-14% and 1 patient had A1c level between 14-15% which was elevated.

Conclusion: This study showed that overweight and obesity were not big issues in the Type-1 diabetic population. Both these cases are rare when the HbA1c level is high.