Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Increased cardiovascular mortality and evidence of atherosclerosis have been reported in patients with pituitary disorders, irrespective of type of pituitary hormone deficiency. However, there are few data on cardiovascular events in patients with secondary adrenal failure due to pituitary disease compared with those who have primary adrenal failure.Subjects: 2052 patients with primary adrenal failure were compared with 20 366 matched control...

Objectives: To identify patient and clinical factors associated with emergency hospital admission with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children and young people with type 1 diabetes attending specialist NHS outpatient clinics in England and Wales.Design: Cross-sectional observational analysis of linked data from the National Paediatric Diabetes Audits (NPDAs) in England and Wales, and Hospital Episode Statistics and Patient Episode Database for Wales. We ...

BackgroundIncreased mortality risk of patients with adrenal insufficiency has been inconsistently reported. This might have resulted from the disparity of time and place of clinical care between the study patients and reference population. Also, data of patients with secondary adrenal insufficiency was limited as majority focused on other types of pituitary disorders. Therefore, we compared all-cause mortality of patients with primary and secondary adren...