Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D is a fat soluble prohormone and can be produced in the body with adequate sunlight exposure or taken up by consumed foods or supplements. Recently vitamin D deficiency has been seen in pandemic. A rare disease, vitamin D intoxication is usually iatrogenic. High levels of 25(OH) vitamin D increases the intestinal calcium absorption and causes severe and refractory hypercalcemia. In this case report we presented a patient with pancreatitis and hypercalcem...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem due to defects of the effect of the insulin or insulin deficiency, accompanied by chronic microvascular complications with diabetic nephropathy is characterised by proteinuria that the increasing number of patients progress to end stage renal disease. Many peptide hormone made in etiopathogenesis is situated, although adropin which discovered in recent years involves in glucose homeostasis, its relation to d...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which causes acute and chronic complications including insulin deficiency and ineffectiveness or both its incidence is increasing every day. Urinary tract infections are more frequently seen and can lead a more aggressive course in diabetic patients when compared with the population in general. The aim of this study is to determine antibacterial susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from diabetic and non-diab...