ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes is a global disease with approximately 425 millions of people affected throughout the world. The treatment cost for diabetes constitutes a significant economic burden and is estimated to increase in areas of Africa, South East Asia and the middle east in parallel to the increase to the disease incidence. These regions contribute differently in the global market revenue for the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and insulin pump t...

Background: Many Muslim adolescents and children insist on fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. There are limited data on the patterns of diabetes management specifically about children and adolescents.Aim: To ascertain the knowledge, attitude, and practices to the management of diabetes during Ramadan fasting among physicians who look after children and adolescents living with diabetes in Arab countries.Methods: An electronic...

Introduction: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has witnessed increasing number of researchers over last decade; for example, in-between 2015 and 2016, the number of researchers (in full time equivalent) per 1 million inhabitants was 2.4K in UAE, 1.1K in Morocco, 680 in Egypt, 604 in Qatar and 242 in Oman. Research and Development investment among Arabic countries was the highest in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirate...

Introduction: Our Centre is an international referral centre for genetic analysis of children with short stature (SS) and features of GH/IGF-1 resistance. Following candidate gene and whole exome sequencing, diagnoses for ~50% patients remained elusive. Copy number variation (CNV) has not previously been investigated in GH/IGF-1 resistance and we hypothesised that CNVs contribute to the phenotype in our undiagnosed cohort.Experimental Design and Methodol...