Endocrine Abstracts

Aim of the work: Impaired Hypoglycemia Awareness (IHA) is associated with an increased risk of Severe Hypoglycemia (SH) in adults with diabetes but is less known in youth. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of IHA and its clinical characteristics in a cohort of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.Methods: This prospective observational study of two-month duration included all eligible subjects with type 1 diabetes attendi...

Background and aim: Insulin tolerance test (ITT) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of cortisol and growth hormone deficiencies in adults. Once hypoglycaemia (<40 mg/dl) is achieved, some medical centers give sugar to their patients (food, drink or glucose infusion), others do not and let the blood glucose rise spontaneously. Although critical hypoglycaemia results in discomfort and potential complications for the patients there is so far no recommendation on the subje...