Clinical features, classification and prognosis of migraine and tension-type headache in children and adolescents: a long-term follow-up study.

We performed a long-term follow-up examination in children and adolescents with migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) in order to investigate the evolution of clinical features and headache diagnoses, to compare International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD)-I and ICHD-II criteria and to identify prognostic factors. We re-examined 227 patients (52.4% female, age 17.

Disturbed eating attitudes, coping styles, and subjective quality of life in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes.

Objectives: To evaluate coping styles and quality of life in youth with Type 1 diabetes with and without eating disorders and to identify relationships between these variables in each group.

Methods: Adolescents were evaluated for eating disorders with a two-stage diagnostic procedure. Adolescents with and without eating disorders then provided data on coping styles and on subjective well-being.

Eating disorders and eating problems among adolescents with type 1 diabetes: exploring relationships with temperament and character.

Objective: To determine temperament and character among adolescents with type 1 diabetes with and without disordered eating.

Method: A clinical sample of 199 adolescents from multiple centers with a mean age of 14.1 (SD, 2.

Prevalence and clinical manifestations of eating disorders in Austrian adolescents with type-1 diabetes.

Objectives: To investigate prevalence and clinical manifestations of DSM-IV clinical eating disorders and subsyndromal eating problems among adolescents with type-1 diabetes.

Method: A clinical sample of 251 adolescents with type-1 diabetes was recruited from multiple centres. Of these adolescents, 199 (96 girls and 103 boys--79.

Eating disorders and type 1 diabetes mellitus in adolescence.

One of the main difficulties in managing type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in the young is nutritional treatment. Studies have shown that adolescents (particularly adolescent girls and young women) have an increased risk for clinical and sub-clinical eating disorders. Adjustment to the nutritional regimen and, consequently, to the management of the disease in adolescence seems to involve a complex interplay of various psychosocial and biological aspects.