Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus is any degree of glucose intolerance with first diagnosis during pregnancy; it affects 3–10% of pregnancies. The presence of diabetes-related autoantibodies has shown to be able to predict the development of type 1 diabetes before hyperglycemia arises.Aim of work: To recognize the prevalence of islet cell antibodies among a sample of Egyptian females with gestational diabetes and its possible relation of dev...