Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To determine the cumulative incidence of nonadherent patients with type-2-diabetes from an outpatient clinic, and to examine determinants and consequences of premature discharge.Research design and methods: A cohort comprising patients with type-2-diabetes referred to a Diabetes Clinic from 2009-2012 was assessed. Patients were categorized as nonadherent if discharged within two years of referral due to nonattendance and/or nonadherence to med...

Objectives: Hypothyroid patients report a diversity of symptoms at disease presentation. We studied how useful symptoms are to predict hypothyroidism, and if this may vary between subgroups of patients.Methods: Patients newly diagnosed with overt autoimmune hypothyroidism (n=140) were prospectively identified in a population by linkage to diagnostic laboratory databases, and we concomitantly enrolled individually sex and age-region matched contr...