Morbidity and Complications of Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents in Ghana: Protocol for a Longitudinal Study

Vera Adobea Essuman   ^{1 *} , MBChB, FWACS, FGCS ;   Naa Naamuah Tagoe   ^{2 *} , MBChB, FWACS, FGCS ;   Josephine Akpalu   ^{3 *} , MBChB, FWACP, FGCP ;   Akye Essuman   ^{4 *} , MBChB, FWACP ;   Adziri H Sackey   ⁵ , MBChB, FRCS ;   CF Hayfron-Benjamin   ^{6, 7 *} , MPhil, MBChB, FGCPS ;   George Asare   ^{8 *} , PhD ;   Benjamin Abaidoo   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   AGB Amoah   ^{3, 9 *} , MBChB, MD, FRCPE, PhD ;   Thomas Ndanu   ^{10 *} , MPhil, PhD ;   IDB Ofori-Adjei   ^{2 *} , MBChB, FGCS ;   NA Barnes   ^{11 *} , MBChB, FGCP ;   BL Appiah-Thompson   ^{11 *} , MBChB, FGCS ;   Winfried M Amoaku   ^{12 *} , MBChB, FRCS, PhD

¹ Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

² Eye Department, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

³ Department of Medicine and Tharapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

⁴ Department of Community Health, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

⁵ Department of Child Health, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

⁶ Department of Physiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

⁷ Department of Anaesthesia, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

⁸ Chemical Pathology Unit, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

⁹ National Diabetes Management and Research Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

¹⁰ Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Ghana Dental School, Accra, Ghana

¹¹ Eye Department, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

¹² Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DCN), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally