RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Metabolic rhythms in adolescents with diabetes.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 124
OP 129
DO 10.1136/adc.61.2.124
VO 61
IS 2
A1 M D Hocking
A1 P H Rayner
A1 M Nattrass
YR 1986
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/61/2/124.abstract
AB Metabolic rhythms were studied over 24 hours in eight adolescents with insulin dependent diabetes before and two months after attempting to improve diabetic control with home blood glucose monitoring. A significant improvement in blood glucose concentration was observed, although 24 hour mean concentrations remained grossly abnormal. This improvement was accompanied by significant falls in blood glycerol and total ketone bodies concentrations and a significant rise in blood lactate concentration. Without attention to other factors affecting diabetic control, the introduction of home blood glucose monitoring produces only a small improvement in control.