Hospital admittance failed to improve HbA1c in adolescents

  • Endocrine Today, February 2013

QUEBEC CITY — Elective hospital admission for adolescents with inadequately controlled type 1 diabetes is not an effective means to improve HbA1c values, according to 12-month data presented here at the Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group 2013 Scientific Meeting.

A retrospective analysis covering a 6-year period compared outcomes of 30 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years with poor glycemic control who were admitted to a tertiary care pediatric hospital with controls who were matched for age and baseline HbA1c and treated and counseled on an outpatient basis.

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