AAP News Vol. 10 No. 10 October 1994, p. 2
© 1994 American Academy of Pediatrics
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Intensive adolescent diabetes treatment

LAURIE LARSON

Intensive insulin treatment delays the onset, and slows the progression, of retinopathy and kidney abnormalities in diabetic adolescents, ages 13 to 17 years, according to a study reported in the August Journal of Pediatrics.

Researchers studied 125 adolescents with no retinopathy, and 70 with mild retinopathy. They gave the subjects either conventional insulin treatment (one to two daily injections) or intensive treatment with an insulin pump and at least three daily insulin injections. Subjects were followed for approximately seven years.