Free Communications of the Gulf Association of Endocrinology and Diabetes Clinical Congress, October 18–20, 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abstract

These are the abstracts of the Clinical Congress of the Gulf Association of Endocrinology and Diabetes (GAED) held on October 18 to 20, 2024. The program included plenary lectures and clinical practice symposia delivered by international and regional key opinion leaders. In addition, free communications on current research and clinical practice within and beyond the Gulf region were presented as oral presentations and posters. We present here the abstracts of these free communications after minimal restyling and editing to suit the journal’s publication requirements. We hope that by publishing them in our open-access journal, we provide early recognition of the work and extend the benefit to those who could not make it to the live presentations, similar to our previous conferences. We also hope to stimulate networking between parties of mutual research interests.

Keywords

diabetes - endocrinology - cardiometabolic - education - research - professionalism - diabetes technology

Introduction

These are the advance abstracts of the free communications of the Clinical Congress of the Gulf Association of Endocrinology and Diabetes (GAED) held in Abu Dhabi, on October 18–20, 2024.

The declared educational objectives of these annual congresses are to give a “state of the art in endocrine practice.”^1–4 These programs include plenary symposia delivered by international and regional key opinion leaders. Furthermore, free communications on current research and clinical practice within and beyond the Gulf region are presented as oral communication and posters.

Here, we produce the abstracts of the free communications after minimal restyling and editing to suit the journal’s publication requirements. The contents remain only abstracts rather than fully peer-reviewed manuscripts. Yet, GAED is delighted to allow the authors to air their findings in its own journal keeping the same tradition it has done over the last 6 years since the launch of our journal.^5–9 Before that we have published our abstracts in the open access Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.^10–14 We aim to provide early dissemination of the work and extend the benefit to those who could not make it to the live presentations. We also hope to stimulate networking between parties of mutual research interests.

Publication History

Article published online:
09 April 2025