Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Optimal glucose management in older people is currently unclear. Recent guidelines recommend avoiding tight glycemic targets in elderly patients with comorbidities because intensive control is unlikely to achieve benefit and they are at higher risk of hypoglycaemia.Objective: To estimate the prevalence of potential overtreatment in older adults with diabetes mellitus and comorbidities.Design: Cross-sectional study.<...

Background: Recent reports suggest that female sex could be an indicator of better response to liraglutide in patients included in clinical trials.Aim: To compare efficacy of liraglutide in women and men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), in real clinical practice.Patients and methods: Our study included 116 patients with T2DM and obesity (BMI >30) attending outpatient clinic, which initiated with liraglutide (0.6 mg/daily f...

Introduction and objective: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection (CLND) in patients with suspected papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) without evident lymph node metastasis (LNM), remains debatable. We propose to evaluate whether BRAF V600E mutation presence, could help to identify patients at risk for LMN.Methods: Retrospective study of patients with diagnosis of PTC, who underwent total thyroidectomy during 2002 and 2013 (n: 256) in our hospi...