Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cardiovascular complications are well known in type 2 diabetes with other factors of cardiovascular disease. Recently, with the intensive treatment of type 1 diabetes, many studies have focused on macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes. The aim of our study was to determine the long-term cardiovascular risk factors and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetic patients.Patients and methods: A retrospective study involving 45 pa...

IntroductionDiabetes mellitus is a serious metabolic disease, described by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic. An alarming increase in its prevalence among adults is observed in Tunisia as everywhere else in the world. Because type 2 diabetes preponderates among adults, few epidemiological studies focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) that occurs during the adulthood. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of DT1 among Tunisian a...