Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The management of diabetic foot starts with prevention, mainly based on the early detection of peripheral neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease, called podiatric risk assessment. This risk must be evaluated in all type 2 diabetics since the discovery. The aim of this study was the assessment of diabetic foot ulcer risk according to International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) and the identification of risk factors for developing foot lesions.<p...

Background: The management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is based on nutrition therapy associated to insulin therapy in second intention if glycemic targets are not achieved. The aim of this study was to assess predictive factors of insulin requirement in a group of pregnant women with GDM.Methods: We conducted a retrospective study at the Outpatient Department and functional explorations, in the National Institute of Nutrition of Tunis, between...

Introduction: Insulin therapy remains a treatment of last resort for type 2 diabetic patients with uncontrolled diabetes with oral antidiabetic. The aim of this study was to find a correlation between the initial dose of insulin and the glycated hemoglobin (A1c) level.Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study. We included 63 patients with type 2 diabetes hospitalized for a switching to insulin in the C department of diabetology and nutrition at the N...