Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Older patients with diabetes mellitus often have concomitant comorbidities and physical disabilities which may lead to poor quality of life. The present diabetic guidelines available to clinicians in their practice suggest aggressive and meticulous diabetic control for target HbA1c (<7%). This is aimed at delaying or preventing complications. Such practice may predipose majority of older patients to experience recurrent hypoglycaemic epidodes and therefore co...

Background: Lithium remains a first-line treatment for bipolar affective disorder and acute maniac state despite the introduction of newer and effective treatment. Lithium therapy is associated with a variety of side effects. Although thyroid dysfunction is the most widely recognised endocrine side effect, hypercalcaemia and more rarely a biochemical picture resembling primary hyperparathyroidism or familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia may develop. Recognition of this less co...