Increased Adiposity at Diagnosis in Younger Children With Type 1 Diabetes Does Not Persist
Response to d’Annunzio et al.
- Kim C. Donaghue, PHD12,
- Samantha L. Clarke, MND1,
- Maria E. Craig, PHD123,
- Sarah P. Garnett, MND, PHD1,
- Albert K. Chan, MAPPSTAT1 and
- Christopher T Cowell, MB, BS12
- 1Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
- 2Discipline of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- 3School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
- Address correspondence to Dr. Kim C. Donaghue, Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. E-mail: kimd{at}chw.edu.au
In contrast to the results of our study (1), d’Annunzio et al. (2) did not find younger children to be more obese at diagnosis compared with older children and speculate that our purported threshold of higher adiposity for earlier onset of type 1 diabetes has not been reached in Italy yet. We agree with their speculation; younger Italian children had a much lower BMI SD score (SDS) (0.26) …
