Pulmonary function in diabetic children with and without persistent microalbuminuria.

The principal spirometric and plethysmographic parameters were measured in 68 (38 female) diabetic children and adolescents, aged from 6.01 to 22.00 years; their duration of disease ranged from 1 to 247 months. Thirty-four patients had persistent microalbuminuria. The patients were studied basally and after the Bruce test. All the spirometric parameters were normal in all children, with and without microalbuminuria. The presence of microalbuminuria seems not to be a risk factor for the developing of abnormal pulmonary function.