Parents keep diabetic teens on track

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 10:49 in Health & Medicine

Teenagers and "tweenagers" with type 1 diabetes have more trouble sticking to their treatment plan - thus raising their risk of blindness, kidney failure and heart disease - if their parents become increasingly lax about monitoring the child's treatment, or if the mother-child relationship is poor.

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