[Childhood diabetes]

Abstract

The authors review diabetes in children up to the age of 16, emphasizing how to treat this disease, the importance diet and physical exercise have in treating diabetes; plus the authors mention the influence of other factors such as psychological ones or the importance of educating patients about their diabetes. Lastly the authors analyze the role schools play and the importance there is at the time of transferring a diabetes patient from a pediatrics unit to an adult hospital.