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Testing for monogenic diabetes among children and adolescents with antibody-negative clinically defined Type 1 diabetes.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Oct 2009
Rubio-Cabezas O, Edghill E L, Argente J, Hattersley A T
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Monogenic diabetes is frequently misdiagnosed as Type 1 diabetes. We aimed to screen for undiagnosed monogenic diabetes in a cohort of children who had a clinical diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes but were pancreatic autoantibody-negative. METHODS: We studied 252 patients diagnosed clinically with Type 1 diabetes between 6 months and 17 years of age. Pancreatic autoantibodies [islet cell autoantibodies (ICA),...
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