Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic neuropathy is a degenerative complication of diabetes mellitus which can be restrictive. The objective of our work is to determine the prevalence of this complication in a type 2 diabetic population as well as its different risk factorsMethods: This is a retrospective study including 100 Tunisian type 2 diabetic patients followed up in the ‘C’ department at the National Nutrition Institute in Tunis.<p class="abstext...

Background and aimDiabetes is the leading cause of adult blindness due to retinopathy. Serum uric acid levels independently predict the development of micro vascular complications. In this study, we analyze the relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) levels with the development and the severity of diabetic retinopathy(DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Patients and MethodsA total of 100 T...

Background and aimAbundant evidence suggests an association between thyroid disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). To determine the interaction between these co-existing pathologies, we analyzed insulin-treated type 2 diabetes patients with diagnosed thyroid disease.Patients and methodsThis retrospective study was performed in 54 type 2 diabetes patients who had been admitted for insulin-treatment and d...

BackgroundCeliac disease (CD) occurs in patients with type1 diabetes (T1DM) ranging the prevalence of 4.4–11.1% versus 0.5% of the general population. The mechanism of association of these two diseases involves a shared genetic background.AimTo investigate whether in type1 diabetes (T1DM) patients the concomitance of treated celiac disease (CD) impacts glycemic control and the prevalence of microvascular...

Introduction: Early spontaneous miscarriage is common in diabetic women and has an unknown mechanism. This rate of spontaneous miscarriage is directly correlated to the glycemic control at the beginning of pregnancy.Objective: To assess the frequency of spontaneous miscarriage in women with diabetes.Patients and Method: This is a retrospective study including 50 diabetic women followed at department C of the National Institute of N...

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy is a a dreadfull complication of diabetes and it is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease worldwide. Hypertension is a major cause of progression of this complication.Objective: To determine the prevalence of diabetic nephropathy, to search a correlation between the presence and duration of arterial hypertension and the occurrence of diabetic nephropathy.Patients and methods: This is a retro...

Introduction: The association of hypertension and type 2 diabetes is frequent. These two pathologies constitute each a cardiovascular risk factor with a cumulative effect which increases the cardiovascular morbi-mortality of hypertensive diabetics.Objective: To measure and compare the frequency of degenerative complications of diabetes in hypertensive and non-hypertensive diabetics.Patients and method: The study was descriptive, re...

Introduction: Sudden idiopathic deafness is often a diagnosis of elimination. It is defined by an isolated sensorineural hearing loss (sensorineural deafness) unilateral and without obvious etiology but a vascular hypothesis is plausible. We report in this context a case of unilateral sudden hearing loss revealing type 2 diabetes (T2DM).Observation: This is a 40-year-old man, sedentary, with no particular pathological history, a 20-pack/year smoker and o...

Objective: The objective of our study is to describe the lipid parameters of pregnant women with diabetes during the three trimesters of pregnancy.Materials and methods: This is a retrospective study that looked at 44 diabetic pregnant women. Clinical biological data were collected from medical records. The personal history of dyslipidemia, pathologies, and medications that may interfere with lipid parameters have been eliminated.R...

Introduction: High blood pressure (HBP) is a public health problem because it is a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Antihypertensive therapy has evolved significantly in recent years to reduce the number of tablets to improve adherence therapy.Purpose of our work: The purpose of our work was to estimate the risk of non-compliance with antihypertensive treatments for a population of hypertensive and diabetic patients, by using a validated ca...