Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) challenges our health systems because of its prevalence, chronicity, complications, cost and complexity of care. Auditing care processes and outcomes is needed for monitoring implementation of existing guidelines, designing interventions and tracking progress. We assessed the care processes (CP) and intermediate outcomes (IO) among patients with DM who attended the diabetes clinic of a tertiary hospital in ...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) challenges our health systems because of its prevalence, chronicity, complications, cost and complexity of care. Auditing care processes and outcomes is needed for monitoring implementation of existing guidelines, designing interventions and tracking progress. We assessed the care processes (CP) and intermediate outcomes (IO) among patients with DM who attended the diabetes clinic of a tertiary hospital in ...

Introduction: Insulin resistance (IR) is a fundamental defect in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) which is reported to be associated with other components of the metabolic syndrome including obesity and atherogenic dyslipidaemia. Routine measurement of insulin resistance in clinical practice is not practical, but other routinely measured clinical variables could predict the presence of IR. We aimed to determine the association of IR with obesity indices and lipid parameters in ...