Are kids with diabetes smarter? Type 1 diabetes has become more common among schoolchildren. However, a new study suggests that children with diabetes perform well in school.

‘Type 1 diabetes has become more common among schoolchildren. However, a new study suggests that children with diabetes do well in school.’
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"This is a positive - and perhaps also a somewhat surprising - result. The assumption so far has probably been that the high and low blood sugar levels in diabetes also affect children's cognitive skills and learning," says Associate Professor Niels Skipper. He is a health economist at the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, and headed the study.
"In addition, the results of previous studies in this field have varied. However, these studies were often based on smaller, non-random samples of children, and characterized by substantial statistical uncertainty."
The new study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Copenhagen, VIVE, Herlev Hospital and Kansas State University, US.
More and More Children are Affected
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When Niels Skipper's four-year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it was thus an obvious choice for the health economist to apply his academic skills to uncover more aspects of the disease.
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Source-Eurekalert