Endocrine Abstracts

Background and Aim: Patients with type1 and type2 diabetes both have a high prevalence of depressive symptoms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and associated factors in patients with diabetes.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in 140 patients with diabetes. Patients’ demographic characteristics, current treatments, glycemic control, cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes-related complication...

Background and Aim: Diabetes is often associated with other cardiovascular (CV) risk factors wich elevates morbi-mortality in these patients. Primary and secondary CV prevention depends on the control of CV risk factor including low- density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level. The aim of this study was to assess the CV risk level of diabetic patients and to determine the rate of lipid targets achievement.Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional s...

Introduction: During these last years, Intermittent fasting was emerging as an approach that improves weight and metabolic outcomes in obese subjects.Objective: To investigate the effects of 16:8 intermittent fasting on metabolic and inflammatory parameters in adult obese.Methods: This is a comparative interventional study conducted in 60 obese women consulting the obesity unit of the Institute of Nutrition of Tunis during the peri...

Introduction: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a frequent comorbidity in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and is now increasingly considered a surrogate marker of endothelial dysfunction as well as a sentinel predictor of new-onset macroangiopathic events. Less attention, however, has been directed at the potential association of FSD and microangiopathy in hyperglycemic states.Methods: We analyzed 30 consecutive female T2DM outpatients in wh...

Introduction: Sexuality can include several dimensions such as thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs\.. But these can be influenced by biological, psychological, socio-economic factors or somatic pathologies, such as diabetes. The aim of our study was to evaluate the sexuality of women with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its different dimensions, as well as the predictive factors of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) among this population.Methods: This is a c...

Introduction: Mitochondrial diabetes (DM) is a monogenic form of maternal transmission diabetes that is caused by mutations in the mitochondrial genome. These mutations affecting mitochondrial function may be the cause of initiation of the phenomenon of apoptosis itself having an aggravating role of the phenotype in patients with mitochondrial diabetes.Materials and Methods: This study involved 43 patients with mitochondrial diabetes (20 non-syndromic an...

Introduction: Exogenous insulin autoimmune syndrome (EIAS) is a rare cause of hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes treated with exogenous insulin. Flares of auto-immune diseases following covid-19 infection have been widely reported.Case report: A 15-year-old type 1 diabetes female patient treated with detemir and glulisine was diagnosed with EIAS based on major glycemic instability and an elevated anti exogenous insulin autoantibody titer of 40 IU (NV...

Backgroud and Aim: Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are reportedly common in diabetes mellitus (DM) with a conflicting data on its prevalence in this specific population. The aim of our study is to determine the prevalence of GI symptoms and its associated factors.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 60 patients with DM. Anthropometric parameters, glycemic control, duration of diabetes and diabetic treatment were collected. Lower and upper...

Introduction: Congenital Hypothyroidism is the principal cause of preventable mental retardation. It is due to Thyroid dysgenesis in 85% of the cases and in 15% to thyroid dyshormonogenesis.Methods: We conducted a prospective study including 17 patients with familial congenital hypothyroidism due to thyroid dyshormonogenesis other than the features of thyroid gland by ultrasound. Other than the phenotype we evaluated the functionality by thyroid Scintigr...

Background and Aim: Coffee is consumed worldwide and have been an important aspect of societal norms and cultural traditions for centuries. The health effects of routine caffeine consumption and their potential function as modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease have recently been the suggested by many studies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the daily caffeine consumption in obese patients and its clinical and metabolic effects.Methods: ...