Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with transfusion-dependent β -thalassemia (TDT) often experience several endocrine complications, including diabetes mellitus (DM). In TDT, the reliability of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) assessment is compromised due to elevated erythrocytes turnover and frequent transfusions. Glycated Albumin (GA), a product of non-enzymatic albumin glycation, has been investigated as a medium-term glycaemic marker (21 days) in the general diabetic population. Since...