Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Considering the high prevalence and significant morbidity and mortality of heart failure in type 2 diabetic patients, identification of risk factors for cardiac dysfunction is important. The ejection fraction represents how well the heart is pumping out blood and is used to diagnose heart failure. In this study, we investigated the factors associated with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in type 2 diabetic patients.Methods: A total...

AcroQoL is a very well-authenticated survey questionnaire capable of evaluating the quality of life (QoL) in acromegalic patients. This study was designed to investigate how AcroQoL of acromegalic patients in Korea would change after medical treatment with octreotide LAR. A total of 58 drug-naïve patients from 11 tertiary centers in Korea were included; all of them were prescribed with octreotide LAR 20 mg at the time of enrollment, and their QoL were evaluated with AcroQ...

Objective: Hypoglycemia is a common adverse event and one of the main obstacles to achieving good glycemic control to minimize the risk of diabetic complications in patients with diabetes. Therefore, most physicians try to reduce hypoglycemia events through education about hypoglycaemia, such as diabetes self-management education. In this study, we surveyed the actual insight about hypoglycemia, behavior of diabetic patients to avoid hypoglycemia and the fear of hypoglycemia.<...

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Aims: High level of uric acid is known to associate with stroke, coronary artery disease and metabolic syndrome. Some epidemiologic studies suggested that high uric acid level is connected with dyslipidemia. However, this relationship was not examined in type 2 diabetic patients. This study was conducted to investigate the association between serum uric acid level and lipid profiles in type 2 diabetic patients.Methods: A total of 972 type 2 diabetes pati...

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Silent corticotroph adenomas (SCAs) are difficult to distinguish from other non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) preoperatively. This study assessed the preoperative clinical parameters associated with SCAs. After excluding patients with increased 24-h urinary free cortisol, 341 patients who underwent surgery for NFPAs during 2011–2016 with available preoperative combined pituitary function test (CPFT) and immunohistochemical staining results were enrolled. The pati...