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Mahmoud Ashraf Ibrahim ,MD

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Volume 1 number 1 Summer 2003
Special issue for the abstracts of the 7th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes
PACD7 , 25 – 28 March 2003 Cairo

Abstract Number : 47
Impaired Intellectual Development in Children with Type I Diabetes

Eman Amin/ Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University 

Good metabolic control in diabetic children is already crucial before puberty to prevent diabetic complications later in life. However, tight metabolic control increases the risk of severe hypoglycemia, which might be responsible for impaired intellectual performance later in life. Purpose of the current review is to evaluate the relevance of long-term metabolic control and hypoglycemia possibly affecting the intellectual development in young children.



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