Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity exposes to multiple complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic ones. It can also cause respiratory problems, which are still insufficiently researched. The objective of this study was to detect respiratory abnormalities in a group of obese people followed in an obesity unit.Methods: This was a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study of 100 obese patients consulting at the human obesity research unit of the Nation...

Introduction: The global pandemic spread of SARScov2 has led to a heavy medical and socio-economic toll since December 2019. Patients suffering from chronic diseases were particularly affected during the lockdown period due to difficulties in accessing care. The aim of our study was to evaluate the impact of the 2-month lockdown introduced in Tunisia in March 2020 on diabetic patients’ glycemic control.Materials and methodsRetrospective study involving 54 diabetic patient...

Introduction: Diabetes is the cause of ophthalmological complications that are all the more severe when the balance of diabetes is precarious. Among the non-retinal ocular targets of diabetes is damage to the optic nerve. The diagnosis of diabetic mononeuritis should only be made after excluding other causes of neuropathy.Observation: We report the case of a patient referred to our service for equilibration of diabetes. This is a 59-year-old patient, typ...

Obesity is a major public health problem. It is a privileged provider of a constellation of metabolic abnormalities, particularly lipids, increasing the risk of morbidity and mortality and hampering the quality of life of the obese.Material and methods: We conducted a prospective study on 100 obese patients recruited at the Human Obesity Research Unit at the National Institute of Nutrition in Tunis. Our patients benefited from an assay of fasting insulin...

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is a multifactorial disease with multiple risk factors that arises from insulin resistance accompanying abnormal adipose deposition and function, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, one of the most common endocrine pathologies. Abundant evidence suggests an association between TSH levels, insulin resistance and some markers of the metabolic syndrome, without foreseeing the kind of this link. The aim of our study was to search if there was a...

Introduction: Type 1 diabetes is an endocrinopathy due to insulin deficiency. Its treatment consists in administering an exogenous insulin simulating the physiological secretion. The objective of this study was to evaluate glycemic variability in a group of adolescents with type 1 diabetes treated with human insulin.Method: This is a cross-sectional study, including type1 diabetic patients treated with human insulin, who underwent continuous glucose moni...

Introduction: During these last years, Intermittent fasting was emerging as an approach that improves weight and metabolic outcomes in obese subjects.Objective: To investigate the effects of 16:8 intermittent fasting on metabolic and inflammatory parameters in adult obese.Methods: This is a comparative interventional study conducted in 60 obese women consulting the obesity unit of the Institute of Nutrition of Tunis during the peri...

Introduction: Obesity is recognized as a continuously growing, global public health problem. It is associated with increased risk of a variety of acute and chronic disorders.Objective: The aim of our work was to estimate the prevalence of obesity-related complications in a group of patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy.Methodology: Retrospective, descriptive study of a group of obese candidates for bariatric surgery recruited from...

Objectives: The aim of our study was to assess the nutritional status of elderly diabetics.Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at the National Institute of Nutrition in Tunis including 40 diabetics aged over 65 years. All patients underwent anthropometric measurements (weight, height, body mass index (BMI)), a biological assessment (fasting blood glucose, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c)), a dietary survey and an assessment of nut...

Introduction: Glycemic variability (GV), defined as an integral component of glucose homeostasis, is emerging as an important metric to consider when assessing glycemic control in clinical practice. The aims of our study were to study glycemic variability among a group of adolescents with type 1 diabetes and to determine the factors influencing this parameter.Method: This is a cross-sectional analytical study, conducted at the National Institute of Nutri...