Endocrine Abstracts

Hyperglycaemia is common in patients (~65%) when they are admitted to hospital with ACS. It is recognised to be one of the important prognostic indicators for all-cause mortality in patients who present with ACS, regardless of pre-existing diabetes1. NICE guidelines recommend to keep blood glucose (BG) levels below 11 mmol/l2 and offer all people with hyperglycaemia after ACS (without known diabetes) for HbA1c 3 check before discharge. We were interested to see whether we foll...

Aims: Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that Indian babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have adverse metabolic profiles. The anthropometric and metabolic profiles in children of women with and without GDM were compared at age 5 years.Methods: Children born to mothers with GDM (CGDM) and without GDM (WGDM) were included in this prospective study. We examined maternal gestational BMI, GD...