A STUDY OF SERUM PHOSPHORUS LEVEL IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic metabolic diseases in children and adolescents, which changes the cellular metabolism. Phosphorus is an essentialelement for metabolism. Early in the progression of diabetes, a paradoxical metabolic imbalance in inorganic phosphate (Pi) occurs that may lead to reduced high energy phosphate and tissue hypoxia. While low and high uncontrolled blood sugars can be easily recognized by clinical symptoms, low and high plasma inorganic phosphate remain unrecognizable. Therefore, we aimed to assess the association between hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) with serum inorganic phosphate in diabetes.