ABSTRACT
The authors noticed a 50% increase in the incidence of arterial hypertension in diabetic subjects compared with non diabetic ones. Females are more affected in both types of diabetes mellitus and during the first ten years after onset of NIDDM. Diabetic retinopathy is more frequent in IDDM. In hypertensive diabetic females retinopathy is twice as frequent as in non-hypertensive female patients.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/complications , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications , Diabetic Angiopathies/epidemiology , Diabetic Retinopathy/epidemiology , Hypertension/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Hypertension/etiology , Incidence , Italy/epidemiology , Male , Middle Aged , Population Surveillance , Prevalence , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
The incidence of dyslipidemia in the diabetic patients tested was found to be twofold compared to the non diabetic population. The percentage was found to be higher in Fredrikson class IIb, unchanged in class IIa and diminished in class IVF.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/blood , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/blood , Hyperlipidemias/etiology , Cardiovascular Diseases/etiology , Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/classification , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/classification , Diabetic Angiopathies/complications , Diabetic Angiopathies/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Hyperlipidemias/complications , Hyperlipidemias/epidemiology , Italy/epidemiology , Male , Population Surveillance , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Lymphoid hypophysitis is a rare disease (fewer than 30 cases) which is associated with lymphocytic infiltration of the pituitary gland with complete or partial hypopituitarism, pituitary mass, and occurrence exclusively in women, often during pregnancy or in the postpartum period. The majority of the women had autoimmune endocrine and not endocrine disorders and in some cases antipituitary antibodies were present. For these reasons an autoimmune cause has been suggested. We report a patient in menopause with chronic thyroiditis and anti nuclear, anti smooth muscle and anti mitochondrial autoantibodies who developed a panhypopituitarism with an empty sella. This case is the third observation of a possible autoimmune atrophy of the pituitary.