Endocrine Abstracts

ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to evaluate whether an increased preoperative hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a risk factor for postoperative complications.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed a database of patients who underwent a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or a laparoscopic gastric bypass. The database was split into two cohort according to the preoperative HbA1c (> or ≤ 7 mmol/l).<p class="abs...

Aim: Patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) or type 1 diabetes (T1DM) are prone to develop other autoimmune diseases. This has led to the concept of autoimmune polyglandular syndromes (APS). It has been proposed that AITD and type 1 diabetes are both part of the same APS (subtype 2). This would imply that they associate with the same diseases. We evaluated whether the clustering of autoimmune antibodies differs between AITD and T1DM.Methods: Ant...