Identification and management of prediabetes: results of the Latin America Strategic Prediabetes Meeting.

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The psychosocial and financial impact of non-severe hypoglycemic events on people with diabetes: two international surveys.

Objectives: To understand the impact of nocturnal and daytime non-severe hypoglycemic events on healthcare systems, work productivity and quality of life in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Methods: People with diabetes who experienced a non-severe hypoglycemic event in the 4 weeks prior to the survey were eligible to participate in a nocturnal and/or daytime hypoglycemia survey. Surveys were conducted in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Mexico and South Africa.

Endemic goiter in pregnant women: utility of the simplified classification of thyroid size by palpation and urinary iodine as screening tests.

Objective: To validate urinary iodine (I) excretion and the simplified classification of goiter by palpation, comparing them with ultrasound of the thyroid gland as the gold standard, to identify endemic goiter in pregnant women.

Population And Setting: 300 pregnant women identified in referral hospitals, in three geographic regions.

Methods: Two endocrinologists, previously trained, evaluated thyroid size by palpation and by ultrasound.