Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To develop a specific questionnaire to evaluate the satisfaction of diabetic patients with the use of glucometers and evaluate their psychometric properties (feasibility, reliability, and validity).Material and methods: Two stages: i) questionnaire development: a set of 53 items was constructed after a bibliographic review. A panel of six experts and 50 patients concluded a 25-item version of the questionnaire (dimensions: satisfaction, inconv...

Introduction and objectives: In clinical practice many professionals are involved in the diabetes treatment. To facilitate this work, we present a computer program, based in recommended guidelines, to improve the management of insulin therapy, called insulinator. We evaluated the correlation between these and clinical practice.Materials and methods: Insulinator has been made so that using a number of variables (weight, HbA1c and glycemic control) offer a...

Objective: To evaluate the response to treatment with insulin infusion pumps by the evolution of HbA1c over 8 years of experience.Methods: Observational retrospective study. We evaluated the response to treatment in 122 patients with type 1 diabetes recruited between 2004 and 2012 in our area.Results: Between 2004 and 2012, 122 pumps have been implemented (average of 17.4 pumps/year). The number decreased to only four in 2012. Pres...

Objective: To analyze the impact of a specialized management on cardiovascular risk at the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus.Material and method: Were analyzed 171 patients who visited our diabetes day hospital (DDH) during 2010–2011, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, smoking habit, arterial hypertension (de novo/previously known), antihypertensive therapy, dislypidemia (de novo/previously known), hypolipidemic thera...

Objective: To analyze the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients treated at the onset of type two diabetes mellitus in our DDH.Material and method: During 2010–2011 were analyzed 171 patients treated in our DDH, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, waist circumference, family diabetes history, microvascular and macrovascular long-term complications, smoking habit, rate of associated hypertension (de novo/ previ...

Objective: Analyze the use of DPP-4 inhibitors (iDPP4) in a specialized consultation as well as metabolic impact, weight and safety in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2).Material and methods: We analyzed 100 patients with DM2, derivative to Diabetes hospital with debut or poor glycemic control. We initiated them sitagliptin 100 mg/day and reinforced Diabetes education. We studied the HbA1c, weight and severe hypoglycemia. Statistical analysis w...

Objectives: Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) are risk factors for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The main objective was to study the incidence of NAFLD using the Hepatic Steatosis Index (HSI) in obese patients with DM2. Secondary objectives were to analyse the effect of liraglutide over HSI, body mass index (BMI) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c).Methods: Retrospective observational study of obese type 2 diabetic patients treated with...

Objectives: Examine the relationship between choroidal thickness (CT) and renal function tests.Methods: Cross-sectional study with 42 eyes of 21 ocular treatment-naïve diabetic patients. Demographic and ocular data were analyzed as well as the following renal function tests: microalbuminuria, microalbumin/creatinine ratio and glomerular filtration rate (CKD-EPI and MDRD-4). Choroidal thickness was measured by swept-source ocular coherence tomography...