Abstracts of the fourth clinical congress of the gulf chapter of the American association of clinical endocrinologists; 3-5 November 2016; Dubai, UAE. II. free communications

Abstract

These are the advance abstracts of the free communications accepted for presentation at the fourth clinical congress of the Gulf Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists to be held on 3 rd -5th of November 2016. One of the main objective of the congress is to give an opportunity to share results of clinical and basic research relating specifically to clinical practice of diabetes care and clinical endocrinology in the region.We present the abstracts of the free communications as submitted by the authors after minimal restyling and editing to suit the publication requirements of the journal. Reflecting mostly the regional epidemiology and clinical practice in diabetes care and endocrinology, were selected for presentations as either oral or poster presentations. By publishing the proceedings of our fourth annual congress in this open access journal, we hope to extend the benefit to those who could not make it to the live presentations and give a safe home for all the abstracts for future reference. Thus making them permanently available to facilitate regional and international networking and collaboration between clinicians and academics of shared interests

Effect of vitamin D supplementation on glycemic control in type 1 diabetes mellitus

“…Other studies found that there is no relation between vitamin D deficiency and age or sex of diabetic patients [37]. In our study, duration of diagnoses of diabetes negatively affects vitamin D levels and this goes with Bassam et al study [38] and Levgeniia Burlaka et al study [39]. Obese and overweight children had more sever vitamin D deficiency (table 2) and this result was in agreement with previous research [35,40].…”