[Diabetes mellitus]

Some of the most outstanding features of Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus in adolescence are revised in this paper and have been established in a group of 38 affected children controlled in the Department in the past years. The relationship between determined epidemiologic and etiopathogenic factors, as the age in which the disease appears, the sex or the presence of concrete HLA antigens with the clinical expression, evolution and prognosis of the Diabetes Mellitus is underlined. Likewise, some problems about acceptance of the disease, fulfillment of the diet or the self-control that are usually manifested during adolescence are commented.