Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The efficacy of self monitoring of blood glucose (SBMG) on glycaemic control in non-insulin-treated (NIT) type-2-diabetes-mellitus (T2DM) is still controversial. In this paper we evaluated the influence of SMBG on glycaemic control in patients with T2DM with poor glycaemic control treated with oral antidiabetic agents.Methods: Thirty NIT-T2DM patients with poor glycaemic control and HbA1c>7% under treatment with oral hypoglycaemic agent...

Introduction: Several data suggest that male hypogonadism occurs frequently in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) but underlying pathophysiological mechanism remains partially unknown. In order to investigate the short term effect of hyperglycaemic state on hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis we prospectively studied 18 men with T2DM younger than 55 years at the time of first diagnosis of T2DM. We compared men with HbA1c≥9.0% with men with HbA1c≤9.0...

Introduction: Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a dominantly inherited disease characterized by colorectal adenomas, extracolonic gastrointestinal manifestations and extraintestinal diseases. Among them, differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is considered very frequent with an approximately risk 160 times higher than in general population, and with a prevalence of the cribriform-morular variant. As this esteem comes from scattered data, we evaluated in a prospective contro...