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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is one of the commonest endocrinal
diseases in childhood. It is classified into three forms,
type I diabetes, type II diabetes and secondary diabetes.
The basic cause of type I diabetes in childhood is the
sharply diminished secretion of insulin.
(Genuth. 1983).
Although basal insulin concentrations in plasma may
be normal in newly diagnosed patients insulin production
in response to a variety of potent secretagogues is
blunted and usually disappears over a period of months.
to years rarely exceeding 5 years. (Sperling, 1988).
Type I diabetes is characterized by increased
frequency of complications (Brittle diabetes). Among the
important complications are the neurological
complications. (Feingold. 1984).
EEG abnormalities constitute one of the neurological
complications which are suspected to occur during the
course of type I diabetes mellitus. The hypoglycemia and
ketoacidosis which occur in the type I diabetes are the
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major factors incriminated in the occurrence of the EEG
changes. These EEG changes may vary between simple
transient forms to severe and permanent EEG sequelae.
(Lerman et al., 1977).
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