Endocrine Abstracts

Vitamin D deficiency seems to be more prevalent in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) than in general population. This association has many clinical and therapeutic implications.The aim of this study was to assess the vitamin D status of patients with PHPT and to describe the clinical presentation of the disease when vitamin D deficiency is associated.Methods: We studied in a retrospective manner, the case of seven pa...

Introduction: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a genetically linked, autoimmune form of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) that accounts for 2–12% of all cases of diabetes.The goal of our study is to detect LADA among patients who were diagnosed as type 2 DM and who became insulin requiring.Methods: Our study included 45 patients (15 men, 30 women) diagnosed as type 2 DM, who had a poor glycemic control on oral hypogl...