Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is a marker which demonstrates 3-month average level of blood glucose level. In individuals with high blood sugar level for a long time is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is a need for simple and cost-effective markers to determine the risk of CVD in primary health care settings. In this study, we aimed to investigate the value of HbA1c for predicting cardiovascular risk in healthy non-diabetic individ...

Aim: We aimed to evaluate wrist and ankle measurements in patients with and without diabetes-related macrovascular disease.Material and method: 151 consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes who came to our diabetic outpatient clinic were included. We have divided the patients into two groups. Group 1 (patients with diabetes related macrovascular complications) and group 2 (patients without diabetes related macrovascular complications). Group 1 (n</em...