Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although skin tag is associated with diabetes mellitus, no data in the literature show that the presence of skin tag is associated with diabetic macro and microangiopathy. The purpose of this study was to investigate frequency of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, macro and micro angiopathy in type 2 diabetic patients with and without skin tag.Methods/Design: We evaluated 99 (40 female and 59 male) type 2 diabetic patients. All patients w...