Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The UK has advocated a policy of screening children’s growth opportunistically. Such a policy has merit if measurements are performed and the data easily retrieved to enable a possible referral for specialist assessment.Height measuredWeight measured N...

Introduction:: Advances in MDT working in Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD) are supported by activities which call for national and international collaborations. In the EuroDSD programme we are collecting clinical data and performing functional studies to assess the pubertal outcome of PAIS patients raised male.Methods: Clinical information including birth phenotype, surgery, medication and pubertal outcome, from 16 post pubertal PAIS patients with k...

Introduction: In many lower-middle income countries (LMICs), poverty, insufficient infrastructure and lack of universal health coverage affect type 1 diabetes (T1D) outcomes. Limited insulin and unavailability of blood glucose monitoring supplies contribute to poor glycaemic control and T1D complications that adversely affect mortality and morbidity. Laos is a LMIC in Southeast Asia (SEA) with a population of 7.3 million. Its GDP per capita is USD 2,534 of which only 2.5% repr...

Introduction: Insulin is standard of care for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Constant insulin adjustment is necessary to keep up with the different insulin requirements of pregnancy. Rapid, flexible and precise dosing of basal insulin and advanced options of bolus calculator settings for prandial insulin make insulin pump optimal solution.Aim: The aim of the study was to explore pattern of insulin dynamic in pregnancies of T1DM patients with ti...

Introduction: Globally, the main cause of mortality of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is lack insulin access. There is minimal data of health outcomes for T1D in low-middle-income countries (LMICs) in South-East Asia (SEA) where government funding of insulin and blood glucose monitoring kits either do not exist or is limited. Action4Diabetes (A4D) is a non-government organisation (NGO) initiated in 2016 and supports children and young people (CYP) with T1D in five countries -Laos, Mala...