title: Longitudinal Growth in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study longitudinal growth in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Anthropometry, disease duration, insulin regimens and HbA1C recorded from patients with diabetes enrolled in a specialty clinic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  160 children (75 boys; mean (SD) age 9.4 (3.3) y) were enrolled. 35% children had low (<25th centile) height velocity. Disease duration and HbA1C affected height velocity (adjusted for puberty). Children on basal-bolus had higher height velocity Z scores than those on a split mix regimen [(0.5(1.6) vs. -0.3(1.4), P<0.05)]. Children diagnosed before 5 years of age had lowest height velocity. Of the children who reached final height, 53% remained below target height.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus have lower height velocity compared to healthy children; those diagnosed at younger age were at higher risk for growth failure.
authors.affiliation: Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir Medical Research Institute, Jehangir Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Correspondence to: Dr Anuradha Khadilkar, Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir Medical Research Institute, Jehangir Hospital, 32 Sassoon Road, Pune.411 001, India. anuradhavkhadilkar@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Lavanya
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parthasarathy
authors.forename: Vaman
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Khadilkar
authors.forename: Shashi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chiplonkar
authors.forename: Anuradha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khadilkar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male