Endocrine Abstracts

A 75-year-old gentleman was admitted with symptoms of lethargy, abdominal pain, severe nausea and vomiting in January 2008. He had solid transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, diagnosed in May 2005, when he initially presented with microscopic haematuria. He had further undergone radical cystoprostatectomy and an ileal conduit. The histology showed aggressive tumour (G3pT3a) with vascular invasion but no metastasis. Follow-up CT scans done 9 months later showed a 3.5 cm l...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) frequently associates with increasing multi-morbidity/treatment complexity. Some headway has been made to identify genetic and non-genetic risk factors for T2DM. However longitudinal clinical histories of individuals both before and after diagnosis of T2DM are likely to provide additional insight into both diabetes aetiology/further complex trajectory of multi-morbidity.Methods: This study utilised diabetes p...