Endocrine Abstracts

Affecting multiple aspects of every-day living, Covid-19 could be a stress-promoting event, and short-stature patients could be an at-risk population. The scope of our study is to assess whether the on-going pandemic could affect children’s response to growth hormone therapy. This was a retrospective study that evaluated children on growth hormone treatment who presented for clinical visits between September 2019 and January 2021 at the Pediatric Endocrinology Department ...

Background: Peripheral neuropathy is the most prevalent chronic complication in diabetes and increases the risk of sarcopenia in these patients. Hand grip strength (HGS) measurement is a good predictor for the presence of sarcopenia.The aim of the study was toevaluate HGS in diabetes patients with and without neuropathy and the clinical and paraclinical parameters that are correlated with HGS.Methods: We evaluated 102 diabetes pati...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus and acromegaly are both associated with an increased risk of fracture caused by altered quality of bone. TBS represents an important tool for assessment of bone microarchitecture.Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the bone deterioration through the trabecular bone score (TBS) and to compare TBS and Z score between 2 groups of patients: acromegaly and diabetes mellitus.Methods: This retros...