Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Atypical antipsychotic agents are useful in treating patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses, but may cause hyperglycaemia. Hyperglycaemia is not dose dependent and is reversible on stopping the treatment.Occurrence of diabetes after atypical antipsychotic drug administration is of major concern as patients may not recognise their symptoms, and health workers may fail to reach an early diagnosis, with major implications for morbidity ...

Background: Metabolic surgery has been hailed as a potential new treatment (‘magic bullet’) for obese patients with type2 diabetes. Several studies have shown that metabolic surgery for morbid obese patients with type2 diabetes can lead to considerable weight loss and also has positive impact on the incidence of type2 diabetes, in some cases leading to elimination of the disease in up to 80% of patients. But metabolic surgery do not seem to induce similar ‘magic...