Autoimmune gastritis in children with type I diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus continues to be the most common endocrine-metabolic pathology. In childhood, type 1 diabetes mellitus prevails - an autoimmune, genetically determined disease, as a result of which this type of diabetes is often combined with other autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune gastritis, the marker of which is antibodies to the parietal cells of the stomach, is quite rare in the children’s population, but with type 1 diabetes, its frequency increases significantly. The article presents the results of recent studies of the relationship between type 1 diabetes mellitus and autoimmune gastritis in children. The results of a study of the prevalence of antibodies to parietal cells of the stomach in type 1 diabetes mellitus in children, factors affecting this indicator are presented. The pathogenetic aspects of the relationship of these diseases are analyzed.