Archives of disease in childhood
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Multicenter Study
The incidence of hypoglycaemia in children with type 1 diabetes and treated asthma.
To investigate whether treatment of coexisting asthma has any effect on the incidence of hypoglycaemia and on glycaemic control in children with type 1 diabetes. ⋯ Diabetic children with treated asthma have significantly fewer episodes of hypoglycaemia and better glycaemic control compared to children with diabetes alone. This observation needs further investigation but raises an interesting question. Do the drugs used to treat asthma, in particular beta agonists, have the therapeutic potential to reduce hypoglycaemia and facilitate an improvement in glycaemic control?