Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Optimal glucose management in older people is currently unclear. Recent guidelines recommend avoiding tight glycemic targets in elderly patients with comorbidities because intensive control is unlikely to achieve benefit and they are at higher risk of hypoglycaemia.Objective: To estimate the prevalence of potential overtreatment in older adults with diabetes mellitus and comorbidities.Design: Cross-sectional study.<...

Introduction: Cinacalcet is an oral calcimimetic indicated in treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism if patients do not accept surgery, do not carry out the surgical criteria, there is failure of previous surgery or serious comorbidity that makes surgery impossible.Methods: Descriptive study that included 20 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism who had complete at least 12 months of treatment with cinacalcet for different reasons (eight patients r...

The recommended nutrient intake (RNI) for iodine during pregnancy has been re-evaluated in 2005 by an international expert committee under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). The consensus reached was that the RNI for iodine during pregnancy should range between 200 and 300 μ/d with an average of 250 μ/d.To asses the adequacy of the iodine intake during pregnancy in a population, urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be mea...