Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a greater risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than those without T2DM. This risk is even further aggravated if they also suffer from hypertension and/or dyslipidaemia. However, better cardiovascular outcome can be reached by tight control of blood glucose, serum lipids, and blood pressure (BP).Patients and methods: One hundred and nineteen patients were consecutively enrolled. Wel...

Background: The discovery of a thyroid nodule exposes the problem of the possibility of thyroid cancer. The difficulty of management of this situation is the fact that only the histopathological examination can confirm or refute the malignancy. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is used as a diagnostic tool to assess thyroid nodules. The purpose of our study is to correlate the clinical, ultasonographic, the FNA results and final pathology to determine the predictors of malignancy o...

Introduction: Therapeutic education of diabetic patients is an integral part of management care of the disease and a permanent way to empower patients and to promote their self-care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the knowledge of diabetic patients about their disease.Patients and methods: This prospective study has been conducted during 9 months and included 312 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosed at least 3 months ago. All...

Introduction: Diabetes is a disease affecting quality of life of millions of persons worldwide. Instagram is one of the most successful social media network. It influences, via its posts, thoughts, emotions and decision making of many topics, including health related ones. The aim of this review to analyse the emotional sharing content of diabetes related posts in Instagram.Methods: An Instagram query using the search term “diabetes” i...

Introduction: Glucagonomas are rare functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours that secrete glucagon. Gastrinomas are neuroendocrine tumours that secrete gastrin and are rarely located in the stomach. We report an extremely rare case of concomitant gastric gastrinoma and glucagonoma.Case presentation: A 64-year-old-man with a history of digestive haemorrhage and gastrectomy presented with weight loss, asthenia, anorexia and abdominal pain. Esophagogas...

Introduction: Diarrhea is an undesirable effect that affects almost one third of patients on metformin.When it appears late, it becomes difficult to attach it to metformin, especially in polymedicated patients or with complicated diabetes. The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical and biological characteristics of a population with chronic metformin-induced diarrhea and to characterize this diarrhea.Methods: This is a prospective study inclu...

Introduction: PCOS is common in Tunisia. It is characterized by the high frequency of clinical and metabolic abnormalities associated with cardiovascular risk. The aim of our work was to describe the clinico-metabolic profile of a Tunisian women population with polycystic ovary syndrome.Methods: This is a prospective study conducted on 53 Tunisian patients with PCOS, referred by their gynecologist to the Obesity Unit of A departement of the National Inst...

Introduction: High blood pressure during pregnancy is associated with various maternal and fetal complications. This risk further complicates the pregnancy of diabetic women.Patients and Methods: We carried out a longitudinal retrospective study including one hundred pregnant women with type 1 and type2 diabetes, recruited from the patients monitored at the national nutrition institute during the period from January to December 2016.<p class="abstext...

Introduction: High blood pressure (HBP) is a public health problem because it is a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Antihypertensive therapy has evolved significantly in recent years to reduce the number of tablets to improve adherence therapy.Purpose of our work: The purpose of our work was to estimate the risk of non-compliance with antihypertensive treatments for a population of hypertensive and diabetic patients, by using a validated ca...

IntroductionCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death ahead of infectious diseases and cancers. The frequency of morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular diseases increases in the elderly and their management becomes more difficult. Hence an early and adequate management of cardiovascular risk factors is needed. The objective of this work was to determine the cardiovascular risk factors in elderly diabetics and to assess the qual...