Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Altered sleep quality and duration have been reported in 26-67% of patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, differences in study designs, populations, and methods of sleep quality assessment have led to heterogeneous results in terms of association with clinical data and blood glucose parameters.Aims: To investigate the sleep quality of a large cohort of adult patients with autoimmune diabetes under insulin treatment, and to analyze the ...

Background and aim: Ovarian hyperandrogenism is a known cause of post-menopausal hirsutism and virilisation, more frequently of a benign nature (e.g. ovarian hyperthecosis, Leydig cell hyperplasia). Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy delivers both definitive diagnostic and therapeutic results. However, after excluding the presence of a suspicious ovarian mass, the use of GnRH analogues (GnRH-a) offers a valuable therapeutic alternative with cases reporting a sustained response in...

Aim: To analyze the prevalence of anxiety and depression in a large cohort of adults affected by autoimmune diabetes and to identify the associated factors, stratifying them according to sex.Methods: We administered to 553 patients with autoimmune diabetes the questionnaires: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Diabetes Distress Scale, Diabetes-related Quality of Life and Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire. We excluded 119 patients w...