Endocrine Abstracts

AimsDuring April and May 2020 in Turkey, changing priorities in the health system and some restrictions on daily life in order to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection may worsen metabolic control of people with diabetes. We aimed to investigate whether glycemic dysregulation or disturbance of lipid metabolism occur in people with diabetes during the lockdown period.MethodsThis retrospective study includ...

Introduction: Diabetic foot is one of the important and destructive complications of diabetes. During the life time of a diabetic patient, the risk of developing foot ulcers is around 5–15%, and about 20–25% of the causes of hospitalization in diabetic patients are due to foot ulcers. 40–80% of foot ulcers can be infected and resulted in osteomyelitis. Hospitalization due to osteomyelitis is 12 times more in diabetic patients than in non-diabetic population....