Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase of new-onset diabetes has been reported in various diabetes centers with many studies speculating an auto-immune-triggering mechanism while other studies hypothesizing an increase of type 2 diabetes (T2D).Aim: The aim of this study is to compare the type of new-onset diabetes presenting with a diabetic ketoacidosis and its prevalence in the pre-pandemic vs pandemic COVID-19.Me...

Introduction: COVID-19 has been incriminated directly and indirectly in the increase of patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis.Aim: The aim of this study is to compare diabetic ketoacidosis precipitating factors in the pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.Methods: This is a retrospective comparative study between patients hospitalized in the diabetology department in the university hospital Farhat Hached of Sousse for diabe...