Type 1 diabetes: Awareness, management and challenges: Current scenario in India.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) has a wide presence in children and has a high mortality rates. The disease, if left unmanaged, poses various challenges to the patient and healthcare providers, including development of diabetic complications and thus decreasing the life expectancy of the affected child. The challenges of T1DM include awareness of the disease that is very poor among the general public and also in parents of T1DM children along with the health care professionals.

Vitamin D status in primary hyperparathyroidism in India.

Objectives: Primary hyperparathyroidism is a syndrome with variable clinical expression, presenting as asymptomatic hypercalcaemia in Western countries and with predominant bone disease in developing countries. Vitamin D deficiency has been implicated as the cause of bone disease. There is a paucity of information on the vitamin D (25-OHD3) status of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism presenting with bone disease.