Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Jun 2024
Controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score is a novel marker of type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic microvascular complications.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its microvascular complications are characterized by chronic inflammation. The Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score is a tool used to assess nutritional status and is often associated indirectly with inflammatory processes. We aimed to compare the CONUT scores of T2DM patients with those of healthy volunteers and to compare T2DM patients with and without microvascular complications. ⋯ The CONUT score could be useful in detecting diabetic microvascular complications in clinical practice, as it is an inexpensive and easy-to-assess marker.
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To demonstrate that deterioration in thyroid function tests can serve as an indicator of severity and prognosis in acute pancreatitis despite a healthy thyroid gland. ⋯ Non-Thyroidal Illness Syndrome provides insight into the prognosis of acute pancreatitis. Free T3 values are a significant parameter that may indicate the prognosis of acute pancreatitis. We believe that free T3 could be incorporated into an ideal scoring system in a disease such as acute pancreatitis, where early determination of prognosis is known to significantly reduce mortality.