Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Many studies indicated an increased cancer incidence and cancer mortality in subjects with diabetes mellitus. But most of studies have been surveyed in western countries and have problems in applying the results to Korean. We aimed to evaluate the site specific cancer risk of diabetic patients in Korea over 30 years, and investigate causal relationship and temporal relationship by analyzing the organ-specific cancer risk in diabetics according to duration.<p cl...

Background: Cortisol and growth hormone elevations are critical counterregulatory responses to severe hypoglycemia. However, the proportion and clinical characteristics of type 2 diabetic patients who fail to show appropriate cortisol and/or growth hormone secretion in response to severe hypoglycemia have not been investigated.Methods: We measured the plasma cortisol and growth hormone levels in type 2 diabetes with severe hypoglycemia (defined as blood ...