Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with thyroid dysfunction require frequent clinic follow-up, but are often young and have difficulty taking time off work or college, leading to non-attendance and disruption to their treatment. The did not attend (DNA) rate of our endocrine clinic was 21.3%, of whom 44% comprised patients with thyroid disorders. Skype has already been used very successfully for follow-up in the Newham diabetes clinics for our young and ethnically diverse population. We wished to explo...

Aims: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) now affects a significant proportion of young people worldwide. ‘X-borough’ contains a strikingly young, diverse population with one of the highest rates of prevalence for adult T2DM in the UK. Our aims were to determine the prevalence and examine the characteristics of young people with T2DM in this population.Methods: Forty-four young people (<25 years) with T2DM were matched with an equal number of young peop...