Athrogenic indexes: Useful markers for predicting metabolic syndrome in axial spondyloarthritis.

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is a pathological entity associated with a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Data regarding the frequency of this syndrome, lipid profile, and atherogenic index of plasma in patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis are scarce. We aim to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with spondyloarthritis.

Delay of insulin therapy in type 2 diabetics.

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a progressive disease. Insulin appears early in the therapeutic intensification algorithm, but is still a last resort. This delay is frequent but its duration has been little studied in the Tunisian population.

[Blood pressure and type 2 diabetes mellitus: impact of the insulin therapy].

Background: The incidence of arterial hypertension is by 2-3 times with diabetics than with non-diabetics. Etiopathogenesis of arterial hypertension in type 2 diabetes is multifactorial insulin-resistance, obesity, hyperlipoproteinemia, age, smoking and probably method of treatment (insulin therapy). The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate, over 5 years period, the level of blood pressure and the frequency's progression of arterial hypertension in 35 type 2 diabetes patients treated with insulin

Methods: comparison of 35 type 2 diabetes patients treated with insulin to 35 controls treated with oral hypoglycemic agents.