Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Atherosclerosis is more prevalent among people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) than among those with normal renal function. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and toe-brachial index (TBI) are a simple useful method for assessing peripheral atherosclerosis. The aim of our study was to investigate whether ABI or TBI were more strongly associated with progression of diabetic nephropathy such as change of urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR), serum creatinine leve...

Background: In the previous study, it was demonstrated that pancreatic steatosis was significantly associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with non-obese T2DM. As the result, it was suggested that pancreatic steatosis might be related to macrovascular complication of T2DM. However, the association of pancreatic steatosis on microvascular complication of T2DM has been unknown.Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relation between ...