Endocrine Abstracts

MS encompasses a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors, and is a common, age-related disorder mainly driven by the increasing prevalence of obesity and it has been claimed to be a powerful predictor of cardiovascular disease. However, the existence of such a syndrome has been recently challenged on the basis of uncertainty of the pathogenetic mechanism(s), too many definitions and diagnostic criteria, doubt about any advantage as compared to existing risk calculation en...

Introduction: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a feature of type 1 diabetes mellitus, but it can develop in people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in the presence of precipitating factors. Antipsychotics have been associated with pancreatitis without DKA or hyperglycemia or acidosis with no evidence of pancreatitis. To our knowledge, there are few reports of patients who developed pancreatitis and DKA during treatment with antipsychotis. We present a case of a patient who developed ...