Children with type 1 diabetes are at risk of mental health problems

In a study by Sweden, children type 1 conditioning were more likely than their non -diabetic brothers to develop a psychiatric disorder or try to commit suicide.

"We suspected that we would find an increased risk of common psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety, as in diabetic adults," said the main author, Agnieszka Butwicka, of the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Bioestadic of the Carolino Institute, Stockholm.

"The surprise was to find that this risk increased with such different psychiatric disorders," which means that children extrapolate the results of adult studies is too simplistic.

According to the National Diabetic Education Program, more than 200,000 American children had diabetes in 2012 and most had type 1, which appears when the agency does not produce sufficient insulin.

The Butwicka team used a national registry to compare more than 17,000 diabetic children born in Sweden between 1973 and 2009 with more than one million healthy children and with the brothers without diabetes of the first group.

The authors reviewed the medical records to find diagnoses of common psychiatric disorders: depression, suicide attempts, anxiety, eating disorders, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD), autism or other behavioral problems.

In Care Diabetes, the public team that 8 percent of children with type 1 diabetes recorded a psychiatric diagnosis.Diabetic children were twice more likely to receive that diagnosis at 18 than children without diabetes and were 1.7 times more likely to try to commit suicide.

But the highest psychiatric risk arose in the group that was born between 1973 and 1986;Then it decreased.That, for the author, indicates that the progress in the attention of diabetes, more flexible lifestyles and a more effective metabolic control would also reduce the psychological load of the disease.

Some have argued that the growing incidence of autism among children with diabetes could be genetic, so their brothers could be more likely to suffer it.

However, the team detected only a slight increase in psychiatric and in no special category.

This suggests that psychological disorders in diabetic children would be the result of the physiological effects of diabetes instead of a genetic risk factor or the family environment.

"Our results could be replicated in other countries with access to the attention of similar pediatric diabetes and with the availability of that data," Butwicka said.

A previous study in Norway had revealed that adolescents with type 1 diabetes are twice more prone to die before the age of 30 than the general population, mainly due to trauma and suicide, as recalled by Dr. Maurizio Pompili, director of the Center for the Prevention Center of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention of the Prevention CenterSuicide of the Sant'Andrea Hospital and the La Sapienza, Rome, Italy University.

"Patients (with type 1 diabetes) are almost twice as a risk of depression that the general population and psychiatric symptoms are common in patients (type 1 condiabetes) and other autoimmune diseases," said Pompili, who did not participate in the newstudy.

He said that in diabetic children, depression should be requested and clarified that not everyone will need treatment.

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