Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: COVID-19 is a potentially serious disease with a high case fatality. At present no specific drug has been shown to be effective and safe in treating it. Recently, evidence suggests that higher levels of vitamin D protect against this infection. However, published studies on this subject are limited. The aim of this work was to investigate an association between hypovitaminosis D and SARS-CoV-2 infection.Methods: This was an analytical cross...

Introduction: Several studies have incriminated hypomagnesemia in the pathophysiology of diabetes, as the prevalence of this deficit in type 2 diabetics is high, and as it is correlated with glycemic control and chronic diabetic complications.Aims: Studying the prevalence of hypomagnesemia in type 2 diabetics and assessing its impact on quality of life, glycemic control and chronic diabetic complications. Patients and methods: We conducted a descriptive ...