Does control influence the growth of diabetic children?

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 109.Does control influence the growth of diabetic children?Growth of 60 girls and 56 boys is analysed both in terms of linear growth and growth velocity.The children were of normal height at the onset of diabetes and were shorter when analysed 3 years or more after the onset of diabetes.The growth retardation was not related to the degree of control of diabetes but was related to the duration of diabetes before the onset of puberty and was due to retarded and delayed peak growth at puberty.In the preinsulin era the growth of diabetic children who survived any length of time was severely retarded (Joslin, Root, and White, 1925).After the introduction of insulin the situation improved dramatically, but several authors have subsequently reported retarded growth in diabetic children (Wagner, White, and Bogan, 1942;