ea0026p723 | Diabetes (epidemiology, pathophysiology) | ECE2011
Masserini B
, Bedeschi M F
, Bianchi V
, Lunati M E
, Lalatta F
, Beck-Peccoz P
, Orsi E
Introduction: Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare, multisystemic genomic disorder. While the natural history of the disease in childhood is quite well-known, few descriptions of the adult WS medical complications have been published.Method: Twenty-two young adult patients with WS (13 females, 9 males, age: 29.2±5.4 years) were studied. A 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed in all but one with known diabetes mellitus (DM). β-Cell ...