Endocrine Abstracts

The aims of the study were to determine the frequency of falls in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and to evaluate the risk factors for falls. In the study, 100 (mean age 64.9±11.0 years) (65 females, 35 males) elderly patients with type 2 DM were enrolled. Medical record abstraction of sociodemographic, clinical, and laboratory data was performed retrospectively. Medication characteristics, comorbidities, location and height of fall, associated injuries and...

Objective: In recent years, many studies have been conducted on the beneficial effects of vitamin D. Vitamin D have many important effects on calcium metabolism, skeletal system and also on different systems. Low serum vitamin D levels are predictors of type 2 diabetes mellitus, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, immunological diseases and even mortality. The relationships between vitamin D and cardiovascular diseases can be explained by the lipid-lowering effect of vitamin D. I...