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Juvenile diabetes mellitus (JDM) is observed to have a high frequency of arthropathy, usually flexion contracture of the fingers. Flexion contracture of the fifth finger only is Class I, and more than one finger on a hand is Class II. Studies of 188 children age 7-15 showed:
Follow-up over one-year period of 55 patients revealed 11 of them to have changes in their arthropathy:
Our studies suggest a correlation between the duration of JDM and the occurrence of arthropathy. Moreover, there appears to be a correlation between good diabetic control and less arthropathy.
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Dang, H., Hindman, J., Mace, J. et al. JUVENILE DIABETIC ARTHROPATHY. Pediatr Res 11, 512 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197704000-00856
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197704000-00856