Endocrine Abstracts

Insulin allergy has become uncommon (<1%) with the wider use of human and analogue insulin in recent decades. We report a case of multiple analogue insulin allergy. A 71 year old woman with an eleven year history of Type 2 diabetes was referred to our Diabetes service. She had a BMI of 37.5 kg/m2. She was in tolerate of metformin. HbA1c was 12.4% on gliclazide and sitagliptine. She was commenced on Novomix 30. Within four days of therapy, she developed generalis...

Background: Bone marrow transplant (BMT) survivors are at increased risk of metabolic syndrome and developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Measurement of HbA1c is increasingly used in recent years for the diagnosis of T2DM. An HbA1c level of ≥6.5% (48 mmol/mol) is considered as a diagnostic cut-off for T2DM and an HbA1c between 6.0–6.4% (42–47 mmol/mol) is considered as at risk of T2DM. We aimed to look at the diagnostic performance of HbA1c and oral glucose toleran...