Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Circulating insulin levels are widely used to provide diagnostic information for diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemic syndromes. C-peptide concentration provides an accurate assessment of residual B-cell function and reliable information about insulin secretion in patients with diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performances and reliability of the Liaison® fully automated system for measurement of insulin and C-peptide concentratio...

Introduction: In Belgium, 21.4% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are diabetic1. In this study, we describe the characteristics of diabetic patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in a Belgian tertiary care center.Patients and methods: The Clinics Ethics Committee approved the systematic registration of anonymized data from hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 (N° CEHF 2020/22MAI/290), i.e. a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test on nasop...