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- Title
Bone Size Normalizes With Age in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes.
- Authors
Bechtold, Susanne; Putzker, Stefanie; Bonfig, Walter; Fuchs, Oliver; Dirlenbach, Isa; Schwarz, Hans Peter
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE -- The aim of this study was to establish whether type 1 diabetes has a long-term effect on bone development in children and adolescents. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS -- Bone characteristics and muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) were analyzed cross-sectionally in 41 (19 female and 22 male) patients and were reevaluated after 5.56 ± 0.4 years using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT). We hypothesize that bone size and muscle mass normalize with age. RESULTS -- At the first evaluation, mean ± SD age was 9.87 ± 2.3 years and disease duration was 4.31 ± 2.9 years. Height was -0.36 ± 1.9 SD, and BMI was 0.39 ± 0.9 SD. Parameters of bone size were low in the whole patient group (corrected for patient's height). At reevaluation, age was 15.44 ± 2.3 years, and patients had a mean height of -0.12 ± 0.8 SD. BMI SD had increased to 0.57 ± 1.1. Total and cortical CSA had normalized. Those patients with an increase in total CSA had a significant younger age at disease manifestation and a younger age at initial pQCT measurement. Bone size was well adapted to muscle mass expressed as the ratio of bone mineral content per muscle mass, and a close correlation was shown between the increase in bone size and in muscle CSA (r = 0.46, P = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS -- Patients with manifestation of type 1 diabetes at an early age had transient impaired bone development. Within the follow-up period, the greatest increase in bone size was found in these patients. In adolescence, all patients had a normal bone size and appropriate adaptation of bone on muscle.
- Subjects
DIABETES; BONE growth; TOMOGRAPHY; BODY mass index; PEOPLE with diabetes
- Publication
Diabetes Care, 2007, Vol 30, Issue 8, p2046
- ISSN
0149-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2337/dc07-0142