The helicobacter pylori infection in diabetic children

Introduction: there are reports that there is high prevalence of h pylori infection in patients and diabetes mellitus. objective: to evaluate helicobacter pylori infection in cases of diabetes mellitus. patients and methods: this case control study was carried out in mofid children's hospital and loghman hospital tehran (iran) during 2008-2009. the cases of diabetes mellitus (with two repeated fasting blood sugar>126mg/dl,blood sugar >200 mg/dl,or clinical manifestation of diabetes) regardless of duration of disease with no history of antibiotic therapy in past 2 months were included in this study. urea breath test (ubt) was done with isomax 2000 made by canada. forty-nine cases (m: 28,f: 21) underwent urea breath test to detect h. pylori infection. 108 healthy controls were also selected. urea breath test was also performed in all controls children. chi-square test was used for analysis with spss version 11.5. results: forty-nine cases with mean age 8.1±2.6 (range 3.5-15 years) were studied. from case group,14(28.6%) cases had positive ubt test while among 108 control persons,30 (27.8%) had ubt positive results (p value>0.05). conclusion: diabetic children are not at high risk of h pylori infection but study with x.