Endocrine Abstracts

Aim:To determine the type of infections in admitted diabetics for the introduction of preventive measures.Method:Medical records of diabetics admitted to the medical unit of King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the period between January 1999 to December 1999 were studied. Positive cultures were identified and the following informations were collected, age, sex, type of diabetes and it's duration, type of infection, causative organism, pres...

Objective:This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver in Saudi type-2 diabetics attending medical outpatient clinic in a Saudi teaching hospital and to study some of their characteristics.Research Design and Method:The study was conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from September 2001 to September 2002. A sample of 116 patients was randomly s...

Aim:To study hypertension in diabetics and non-diabetics, it's degree of control and the type of antihypertensive agents used.Method:The study was conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Hypertensive patients being followed at the medical outpatient clinic from February 2001 to February 2002 were studied. They were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of diabetes. The following data were recoded; age, sex, na...

Background and objectives: Identification of metabolic syndrome (MS) is important for the strategy to reduce the prevalence of NIDDM. The latest IDF consensus definition emphasizes waist circumference as the central criteria, while the earlier ATP III definition gives equal importance to different risk factors. In absence of local data on definition of central obesity, it might be inappropriate to use the IDF definition. Therefore, it is aimed to investigate the prevalence of ...