Endocrine Abstracts

A 52 year old lady with hypothyroidism and hypertension was referred by her GP for unexplained low blood glucose on several occasions. There was history of vacant spells with confusion and disorientation over the previous year. When referred for neurological assessment, no abnormality was identified. Her medications included amlodipine 5 mg, ramipril 10 mg, thyroxine 50 mcg, loratidine 10 mg. Her BMI was 44 kg/m2.Additional investigations arra...

Vitamin D deficiency seems to be more prevalent in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) than in general population. This association has many clinical and therapeutic implications.The aim of this study was to assess the vitamin D status of patients with PHPT and to describe the clinical presentation of the disease when vitamin D deficiency is associated.Methods: We studied in a retrospective manner, the case of seven pa...

Introduction: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a genetically linked, autoimmune form of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) that accounts for 2–12% of all cases of diabetes.The goal of our study is to detect LADA among patients who were diagnosed as type 2 DM and who became insulin requiring.Methods: Our study included 45 patients (15 men, 30 women) diagnosed as type 2 DM, who had a poor glycemic control on oral hypogl...