Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundCardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) that is strongly associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. The significance of CAN has not been fully appreciated. Treatment of CAN includes physical activity.AimTo detect CAN status and measure the influence of physical activity on the autonomic nervous system using cardiovascular autonomic refl...

The polyglandular autoimmune syndromes (PAS) are rare disorders characterized as multiple autoimmune-mediated organ failure. PAS III includes chronic autoimmune thyroiditis with type 1 diabetes mellitus or pernicious anemia and/or vitiligo or alopecia and many other organ-specific autoimmune diseases, but never involves adrenal cortex. Several patients with PAS III and associated type 1 gastric neuroendocrine tumor (NET) have already been reported. We report probably the first...