Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has become an essential tool in diabetes management. In order to use CGM for treatment decisions, CGM systems have to be reliable over a wide range of glycemia as well as in situations with rapidly changing glucose levels such as exercise or in the postprandial state.Design: In this monocentric study we evaluated the performance of three commercially available CGM systems (Abbott Libre, Dexcom G4 Platinum...

Background: Calcification occurs physiologically in bone and pathophysiologically in the vasculature. Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common causes of death within patients with chronic kidney disease and crucial for kidney transplantation (RTX) outcomes.Methods and aim: We investigated the pattern and the onset of expression of regulators of calcification (RC) in the arteria iliaca externa in 26 donors (D) and 25 recipients (R) of RTX to iden...