Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Recently there has been a steady increase in direct costs for treatment of patients with diabetic foot. Therefore, cost-effectiveness analysis of different treatment strategies of patients is important for healthcare organizations and is an additional argument when deciding on the allocation of financial resources.Aim: A comparative analysis of cost-effectiveness of non-specialized and specialized medical care for patients with diabetic foo...

Background: Familial partial lipodystrophy type 2 (Dunnigan syndrome and FPLD2) is a rare genetic disorder, associated with different metabolic abnormalities, especially insulin resistant diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, hepatic steatosis, and cirrhosis, cardiovascular disease, and cardiomyopathy, kidney disease.Clinical case: A 20-year-old patient first presented with changed appearance due to abnormal subcutaneous fat tissue redistribution (lipodystro...

Background: The aim of this study was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients living in cities and towns with different population in the Russian Federation (RF) using EQ-5D questionnaire, to calculate health utility index (QALY) and cost-utility ratio (CUR).Methods: One of the goals of the multicenter, observational, epidemiologic study FORSIGHT-DM2 was to evaluate HRQoL using the EQ-5D Questionnaire. The study included more than 20...