English to Italian Medical Medical (general)

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus experience characteristics specific to adolescence just as well, like living the present, not thinking about the future, believing they are invulnerable to bad events and to further consequences of inappropriate present behaviors, and wanting to show autonomy during confrontations with parents and teachers. In addition, there is also the fact that metabolic control during adolescence tends to deteriorate due to the decline in insulin production until reaching zero, to hormonal changes characteristic of that age associated with insulin resistance, greater risk of hypoglycemia, and due to the difficulty to follow the proposed treatment. Thus, children and adolescents' adjustment to the situation is a complex process that involves internal and external factors, which influence adolescents' responses and adjustment to the illness situation(3-5).