Endocrine Abstracts

Diabetes arising in young adulthood has a wide differential diagnosis, including autoimmune and genetic causes as well as young onset type 2 diabetes (YT2D). Specific features may be associated with each of these groups, but they cannot be differentiated from YT2D by mode of presentation. Family history, clinical characteristics and laboratory investigations provide complementary strategies to help dissect different known aetiologies.We studied 268 UK Ca...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and characteristics of psychiatry inpatients with type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes, compared to psychiatry inpatients without diabetes.Research design and methods: Inpatients aged >30 years at the Austin psychiatry unit (February 2014–April 2015) had HbA1c measurements as part of the Diabetes Discovery Initiative. Patients were divided into three groups – diabetes (HbA1c ≥6.5%, 48 mmol/mol), pre-...