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ArticleMediators of inflammation2013

Insulin therapy with personal insulin pumps and early angiopathy in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Joanna Tołwińska, Barbara Głowińska-Olszewska, Artur Bossowski

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Article in Mediators of inflammation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Joanna TołwińskaDepartment of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology with Cardiology Division, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok University Children's Hospital, 17 Waszyngtona Street, 15-274 Bialystok, Poland.
Barbara Głowińska-OlszewskaDepartment of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology with Cardiology Division, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok University Children's Hospital, 17 Waszyngtona Street, 15-274 Bialystok, Poland.
Artur BossowskiDepartment of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology with Cardiology Division, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok University Children's Hospital, 17 Waszyngtona Street, 15-274 Bialystok, Poland.
Medical University of Białystok · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveAssessment of the effect of a treatment method change from multiple daily insulin injection (MDI) to continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) on the development of early angiopathy in children with T1DM with or without retinopathy.

methodsThe study pump group involved 32 diabetic children aged 14.8, with the initial HbA1c level of 8.3%, previously treated by MDI. The patients were examined before pump insertion and after 3 and 6 months of CSII. We assessed HbA1c level, carotid artery intima-media thickness (c-IMT), and flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery. The pump group was compared to a group of eight teenagers with diagnosed nonproliferative retinopathy, treated with MDI.

resultsHbA1c in the entire group was found to improve in the second and in the third examination. During 6 months of CSII, FMD increased and IMT decreased. Retinopathic adolescents had significantly thicker IMT and lower FMD compared to baseline results of the pump group. Treatment intensification in the retinopathy-free children enhanced these differences.

conclusionsCSII is associated with lower IMT and higher FMD. Whether on the long-run CSII is superior to MDI to delay the occurrence of diabetes late complications remains to be explained.

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Insulin Infusion SystemsAdolescentAtherosclerosisCarotid Intima-Media ThicknessChildDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Diabetic AngiopathiesFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHumansInsulinMaleGlycated Hemoglobinhemoglobin A1c protein, humanInsulin

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