Endocrine Abstracts

Background: To avoid the serious complications of diabetes glucose control must be tackled aggressively in type 2 diabetes. However some patients with type 2 diabetes are severely insulin resistant and although they are treated with large doses of insulin their blood glucose is still not optimally controlled.Aim: This project aims to determine the dose–response to insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes and severe insulin resistance.<p class="a...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis, which causes macro-vascular complications such as cerebral infarctions, myocardial infarctions, and peripheral vascular disease. We aimed to investigate whether there are differences in the morphology of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries assessed by MRI in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients compared to non-diabetic control subjects.Methods: Hundred type 2 diabetic p...