Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Autonomic nervous system dysfunction has been widely observed in patients with type 2 diabetes. Twenty-four hour ambulatory heart rate measurements (AHRM) have been found to associate with autonomic dysfunction in patient with type 2 diabetes. Since albumin excretion is also related with autonomic dysfunction; in the current study, we analyzed whether 24-h AHRM were related with 24 h urinary albumin excretion (UAE) and urinary protein excretion (UPE) in newly dia...

Aim: Few studies demonstrated that self-reported nocturnal sleep duration (NSD) were related with urinary protein excretion. However no previous study has specifically addressed the relationship between 24-hour urinary albumin excretion (UAE) and 24-hour urinary protein excretion (UPE) in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients.Methods: All patients underwent history taking, physical examination, blood pressure (BP) measurement, 12 lead electrocardiogra...

Purpose: Studies have shown that testosterone levels were associated with cognitive function, depression and sleep quality in general population. However these relationships between testosterone, cognitive function, depressive behavior, and sleep quality in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients not on dialysis were not evaluated before.Methods: All patients underwent history taking, physical examination, blood pressure measurement, routine urine and bioch...