The primary objectives of this work are (a) to assess whether in children and adolescents with T1D the presence of emotional eating is associated with metabolic control (glycated hemoglobin, plasma lipids, uric acid), with demographic (age, sex, duration of diabetes), anthropometric (BMI-SDS), therapeutic (insulin delivery method, with pump or multiple daily injections, and total daily dose), and clinical variables (association with other autoimmune diseases) and (b) whether subjects with DEB have a higher emotional eating score than subjects who do not have DEB. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is type 1 diabetes mellitus.