Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To assess the impact of age, sex, duration of diabetes and body mass index confounders on diabetes control in a Jordanian cohort of T2DM at endocrine clinic at KHMC.Patients and methods: Patients randomly selected over 18 months from outpatient clinic at KHMC in Amman-Jordan. Diabetes control assessed by mean of latest 3 HbA1c and FBS. Patients were divided in 2 groups according to age (<55 years vs >55 years), gender, duration (<10 year...

Acromegaly is a chronic debilitating disease due to long term exposure to elevated levels of growth hormone (GH) which leads to excessive growth of both skeletal and soft tissues. It is slowly progressive with 30% increase in mortality rate for cardiovascular disease, respiratory complications and malignancies. The estimated prevalence of the disease is 40 cases per million with 3–4 new cases per million populations per year. Acromegaly most commonly presents between the ...