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Diabetes management and its complications

Diabetes management and its complications

Diabetes management and its complications

Extensive experience in diabetes management. Up-to-date knowledge of all newly released oral and injectable medications. Confidently manages insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring sensors.

Thyroid disorders

Diabetes management and its complications

Diabetes management and its complications

Dr Cínthia has a special interest in thyroid disorders, especially Graves' disease and thyroid nodules. We welcome referrals covering all thyroid diseases, from benign conditions to thyroid cancer. 

General endocrinology

Diabetes management and its complications

General endocrinology

We welcome referrals covering all aspects of general endocrinology, including obesity, lipids and hyperlipidemia, reproductive disorders (menstrual disorders, male hypogonadism, polycystic ovary syndrome, menopause, hormone replacement therapy), calcium and bone metabolism (osteoporosis), pituitary and adrenal disorders.

About me

Dr Cinthia Riguetto is a specialist endocrinologist and diabetologist with expertise in the manageme

Dr Cinthia Riguetto is a specialist endocrinologist and diabetologist with expertise in the management of diabetes and endocrine disorders.


Motivated by her interests in thyroid diseases, especially Graves’ disease and thyroid cancer, she finished her master’s degree in this field in 2018 and PhD in 2024 in Graves’ ophthalmopathy.


After finishing her advanced training in Endocrinology (2016), Dr Cínthia worked as a consultant for four years providing high-quality care for patients with diabetes, mainly focusing on insulin pumps and continuous glucose sensors. 


In June 2020, Dr Cínthia and her husband Flávio decided to move to New Zealand, looking for a better work-life balance for their new family. Since then, she has worked as a consultant endocrinologist at the Waikato Regional Diabetes Service in Hamilton, one of the busiest diabetes centres in Aotearoa New Zealand. She also became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).


Dr Cínthia has recently moved to Tauranga and is now part of the Virtuoso Clinic. 

Recent scientific activities

Original papers published

  • The Influence of Maternal Diet on Gut Microbiota Diversity During Pregnancy: A Mini-Review. Principles and Practice of Clinical Research. 2025. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35118010/


  • Interaction of MMP-9 in the active phase of Graves’ disease with and without ophthalmopathy. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2024. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39259164/


  • Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging approaches to Graves’ ophthalmopathy: a narrative review. Frontiers in Endocrinology 2024. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38260158/


  • Ocular Surface Disease Related to the Inflammatory and Non-Inflammatory Phases of Thyroid Eye Disease. Clin Ophthalmol 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38026592/


  • Post-bariatric hypoglycaemia diagnosed during pregnancy. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep. 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37787754/


  • Epidemiology of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the Waikato Region of New Zealand: 2000-2019. J Diabetes Res 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37720598/


  • Risk factors associated with diabetes after liver transplant. Arch Endocrinol Metab. 2022. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315984/


  • Fixed 30 mCi (1,110MBq) 131I-iodine therapy in autonomously functioning nodules: single toxic nodule as a predictive factor of success. World Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2021. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35018149/


  • Usefulness of pre-thyroidectomy neutrophil–lymphocyte, platelet–lymphocyte, and monocyte–lymphocyte ratios for discriminating lymph node and distant metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer. Clinics Journal. 2021. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34406270/


  • Fixed 30 mCi 131I-iodine therapy without thyroid-stimulating hormone stimulation as an attractive alternative in nontoxic nodular goiter. Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2020. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32427701/


  • Identification and performance of multiple clinical and laboratorial risk factors for diagnosis of cardiac autonomic neuropathy in type 1 diabetes patients. Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders. 2019. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31890683/


  • Heterotaxy syndrome with agenesis of dorsal pancreas and diabetes mellitus: case report and review of the literature. Arch Endocrinol Metab. 2019. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31166366/


  • Value of Infrared Thermography Camera Attached to a Smartphone for Evaluation and Follow-up of Patients with Graves' Ophthalmopathy. International Journal of Endocrinology. 2019. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31210762/


  • The relationship between quality of life, cognition, and thyroid status in Graves' disease. Endocrine. 2018. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30173328/


  • Clinical Profile of Patients With Diabetes Mellitus and Liver Transplantation: Results After a Multidisciplinary Team Intervention. Transplantation Proceedings. 2018. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29661438/


  • Frequency of Thyroid Dysfunction in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Before and After Liver Transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings. 2018. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29661439/

Book chapters

  • Chapter 295. Orbitopatia de Graves. Neurologia de A-Z Um Compêndio de Doenças Incomuns. 2021.


  • Chapter 321. Prader-Willi Manifestações Neurológicas. Neurologia de A-Z Um Compêndio de Doenças Incomuns. 2021.


Meetings

  • May 2025 - NZSSD Annual Meeting
  • April 2025 - ESA Seminar
  • November 2024 – New Zealand Society of the Study of Diabetes Meeting
  • September 2024 – Clinical Endocrinology Update
  • June 2024 – American Diabetes Association
  • March-September 2024 – Principles and Practice of Clinical Research – Harvard Public Medical School.
  • November 2023 – CAEFAT
  • September 2023 – Clinical Endocrinology Update
  • June 2023 - ENDO
  • September 2022 - Clinical Endocrinology Update
  • June 2022 – ENDO
  • March 2022 – Miami Thyroid Oncology Symposium
  • December 2021 – 20º Simpósio Internacional de Neuroendocrinologia - SINE
  • September 2021 – Congresso de Atualização em Endocrinologia e Metabologia
  • September 2021 – Diabetes in Pregnancy Aotearoa Models of Care
  • May 2021 – Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes
  • April 2021 – SITEC: Simpósio Internacional de Tecnologias em Diabetes
  • March 2021 – ENDO
  • February 2021 – Vascular Society of New Zealand Meeting
  • November 2020 – 34º Congresso de Endocrinologia e Metabologia
  • October 2020 – 63rd Endocrine Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting
  • September 2020 – 56th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
  • June 2020 – ENDO

Contact Us

The care you deserve.

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Telephone + 64 7 579 0466

FAX + 64 579 0468

email: info@endocrinebop.co.nz

Dr Cinthia Minatel Riguetto - Endocrine BOP

850 Cameron Road, Tauranga, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand

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Endocrine BOP Limited

Virtuoso, Suite 6, Level 1

850 Cameron Road

PO Box 56 Tauranga 3140, New Zealand

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