Endocrine Abstracts

NIHR funded a 5 year Programme Grant for Applied Research to explore how to promote the subjective wellbeing and health of young people with long term conditions by generating evidence to enable NHS Commissioners and Trusts to facilitate the successful transition of young people from child to adult health care, thereby improving health and social outcomes. It completed in September 2017. I shall cover some background to transition, then summarise the purpose of the Programme a...

Rarely does the diagnosis of diabetes go beyond the broad classification of type 1 or type 2 diabetes. This is usually based on simple clinical criteria such as BMI, age of diagnosis and presence of ketosis. We know that approximately 15% of patients are wrongly diagnosed and therefore receive suboptimal treatment. In addition, rarer monogenic forms of diabetes are present in as many as 3% of patients in the paediatric clinic and are often misdiagnosed as type 1 or type 2 diab...