Original ArticlesNeonatal diabetes mellitus: Chromosomal analysis in transient and permanent cases☆,☆☆
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Recruitment
This was a retrospective multicenter study. Patients were recruited on a voluntary basis through a network of physicians or pediatricians known to be involved in the treatment of diabetes. The physicians were asked to complete a standardized questionnaire for each of their patients who met our inclusion criteria for neonatal diabetes (discussed later). The questionnaire contained items about the family history of diabetes, the pregnancy, birth characteristics, circumstances of the diagnosis of
Incidence of Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus in France
We obtained information on 50 subjects with neonatal diabetes through our survey of the French pediatric clinics and neonatalogy departments. This covers a 30-year period. It can be estimated that there were 22,500,000 births in France during that time frame. Therefore, the incidence can be estimated to be about 1 in 450,000 in France.
Family history of diabetes mellitus
Clinical data were available for 50 patients who had a history of neonatal diabetes mellitus and met our inclusion criteria, 28 females and 22 males. Gender
Discussion
Neonatal diabetes mellitus is a mysterious disease in which the mechanism of insulin deficiency is unknown. It is also unusually difficult to take care of a child of this age with diabetes. Nevertheless the prognosis is totally different in the 2 forms of neonatal diabetes. In TNDM, the disease is not permanent. This study was undertaken to better characterize the clinical features of neonatal diabetes and to see if the 2 forms could be distinguished at onset. We also described the genetic
Acknowledgements
We thank our collaborators in the network “EURONEODIA” dedicated to neonatal diabetes: J. Shield, MD, Department of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Bristol, United Kingdom; K. Temple, MD, Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Human Genetics, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom; D. Mackay, MD, and D. Robinson, MD, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, United Kingdom; L. Journot, MD, L. Varrault, MD, and A. Varrault,
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