🧵 Twitter Thread: The Surprising Case of a 6-Year-Old with Diabetes Mellitus
1/ Hey Twitterverse! 🌟 Today, I want to share an intriguing case that highlights the importance of considering all possibilities when diagnosing diabetes in children. Meet a 6-year-old boy who presented with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. #Diabetes #MODY #Pediatrics
2/ At first, we thought of the typical type 1 diabetes, which is quite common in children. So, we treated him accordingly with insulin therapy. But there was something that didn't quite add up. 🤔 #Type1Diabetes #InsulinTherapy
Oxytocin Deficiency in Patients with Diabetes Insipidus 🧪🩺
1/ Oxytocin deficiency in patients with diabetes insipidus (DI) has been investigated in a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Let's dive into the key findings and implications of this research!
2/ The study aimed to explore oxytocin deficiency in patients with arginine vasopressin deficiency (central DI) by using 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), a potent activator of the central oxytocinergic system. This was a case-control study conducted at 🇨🇭
MC Thomas in his article argues that Type 2 Diabetes should be renamed the "CARAMEL Disease" (A 🧵)
What does CARAMEL stand for ?
CARAMEL stands for CArdiac, Renal, Adipo-Metabolic, Eye and Liver disease
His argument is that Type 2 diabetes is a mere manifestation of the "actual disease". So are the other manifestation of the CARAMEL acronym which all arise from the common soil... So that this common soil?
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1/5: 🩸 The Hemoglobin Glycation Index (HGI) compares a person’s actual HbA1c level to their predicted level based GMI (glucose management index) value from CGM
2/5: 📊 The HGI is calculated by subtracting the estimated HbA1c from the measured HbA1c. A high HGI suggests increased glycation rate, linked to microvascular complications in diabetes.
The Clarke Error Grid Analysis (EGA) is a tool developed in 1987 to assess the clinical accuracy of blood glucose meters by comparing their readings to reference values.
The grid breaks down a scatterplot of a reference glucose meter and an evaluated glucose meter into five regions:
Region A are those values within 20% of the reference sensor,