Clinical features, biochemistry and HLA-DRB1 status in youth-onset type 1 diabetes in Pakistan.

Published information on diabetes in Pakistani youth is limited. We aimed to investigate the demographic, clinical, and biochemical features, and HLA-DRB1 alleles in new cases of diabetes affecting children and adolescents <22 years of age. The study was conducted at Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology in Karachi from June 2013-December 2015.

Glycemic control, hypertension and chronic complications in type 2 diabetic subjects attending a tertiary care centre.

Background: This study was carried out to assess the association of glycemic control and hypertension with chronic complications in type 2 diabetic subjects attending a tertiary care centre in Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods: This was a cross sectional analytical study. First visit of type 2 diabetic subjects to the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology, from September 1996 to December 2001, were analyzed for this study.

Comparison of risk factors for diabetes in children of different socioeconomic status.

Objective: To compare the risk factors for diabetes in children of two different socioeconomic status.

Design: A cross-sectional analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Visits to one government (low income) and two private (middle income) schools of Karachi in 1999 and 2000.

Frequency of chronic complications of type II diabetes.

Objective: To assess the frequency of chronic complications of type II diabetes in subjects attending a tertiary care unit in Karachi, Pakistan.

Design: A cross-sectional analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: First visit of all type II diabetic subjects attending the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology from September 1996 to December 2001.