Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Carbohydrate-restricted diets in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) are highly controversial. A commonly held concern is that a low carbohydrate diet may more readily result in conversion to diabetic ketoacidosis – one of the most severe complications of poorly managed T1DM. Of note, there is no clear evidence for this phenomenon. We evaluated metabolic profiles in patients with T1DM who had self-selected carbohydrate-restricted diets.<p clas...

Case history: A 39 year old lady was being investigated and managed for premature ovarian insufficiency (onset aged 29y) associated with an unusual constellation of symptoms. Following normal childhood and pubertal development, she subsequently developed fatigue, multiple gastrointestinal symptoms and was underweight with evidence of weight loss, and a most recent BMI of 17 kg/m2. She had previously been reviewed due to marked absence of subcutaneous fat in the lowe...