Endocrine Abstracts

What happens if the prescribed medication makes the patient ‘worse’ than he was before comint to the doctor? Putting aside the world wide accepted JNC clasiffication of hypertension, we colud consider the following:The ‘cat-walk’ (moderate) hypertension (<150/95 mmHg) 2. Pts with serious hypertension with symptoms 3. Pts with seerious hypertension without symptoms.Having moderate hypertension and no side eff...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy affects 20–40% diabetics. It is the most common cause of ESRD in Europe. In Serbia, 10–18% of the patients requiring HD are diabetics and that number is constantly increasing.Methods: We made a retrospective study of the survival of both diabetic and non-diabetic patients requiring HD treatment during two 5 years long periods.Results: During the first period 92 patients were followed-up an...