Table 1.
Tools | Content | |
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Demographics | Questionnaire | Age, sex, family structure, family income, parents’ educational status, address, phone number |
Academic performance | Questionnaire | School status (public or private), scores in literature, maths, science and physical education, absenteeism |
Medical information | Questionnaire | Duration of diagnosed DM, insulin dosage, type of insulin, frequency of insulin injections, hypoglycaemic crises, DKA and hospital admission in the last year, latest fasting blood sugar, BS(2HPP), BUN and Cr laboratory data and trend in HbA1C changes |
Cognition | Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): Intra-extra dimensional set shift (IED)
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Attention, working memory, verbal memory, spatial memory, executive function, decision making |
Brain structure | MRI 3 Tesla | Intracranial vault, CSF and ventricular, hippocampus, total intracranial, total brain, grey matter and white matter volume |
BS(2HPP), blood sugar (2 h post prandial); BUN, blood urea nitrogen; Cr, creatinine; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; DKA, diabetic ketoacidosis; DM, diabetes mellitus.