Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Components in Children Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Kfir Kaidar ^2,3 Noa Levek-Motola ¹ Valentina Boyko ⁴ Efrat Tisch ¹ Kineret Mazor Aronovitch ^1,2,3 Chana Graf-Barel ¹ Zohar Landau ¹ Liat Lerner-Geva ^3,4 Rachel Frumkin Ben-David ¹ Orit Pinhas-Hamiel ¹

¹Juvenile Diabetes Center, Maccabi
²Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital
³School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University
⁴Gertner Institute, Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Tel Hashomer

Background: We aimed to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1DM), and to assess the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components.

Methods: The study cohort comprised 326 (168 females) consecutive patients aged 5 to 30 years diagnosed with T1DM and followed in Juvenile Diabetes Clinic, Maccabi Health Care Services. Anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, presence of additional diseases, other medications, HbA1c, triglycerides and HDL-C levels were obtained.

Results: Mean age of the study group was 18.5±6.0 years, mean diabetes duration was 8.7±5.0 years. Mean HbA1c level was 8.1±1.3%. Nineteen percent of the study population was overweight (85^th>BMI< 95^th percentile) and 5.2% were obese (BMI>95^th percentile). Females aged 15-

Conclusions: Overweight but not obesity was more prevalent in females with T1DM. MetS and its components were more prevalent among overweight and obese individuals with T1DM than among normal weight individuals.