Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most challenging health problems in the world. The degree of prevention or control of complications directly affects patients’ mortality. Therefore, it is crucial to control the risk factors of diabetes. We investigated the prevalence, treatment, and control of diagnosed diabetes in Korean adults from 1998 to 2010.Methods: The Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted the Korean National Health and Nutritio...

Aim: Suicide and depression are one of the highest public health problems worldwide. Suicidal ideation represents an important phase in the suicidal process and often precedes suicidal attempts or completed suicide. Patients with chronic medical disease are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and depression. However the studies on relationship between these conditions and metabolic syndrome are rare. We aimed at investigating the prevalence of depression and suicidal ideat...

Introduction: Rutin (C27H30O16) is the major representative of the flavonol subclass of flavonoids. Rutin has wide variety of pharmacological activity, however there are not sufficient data in 3T3-L1 preadipocyte. In this study, we demonstrated that the effect of rutin on the proliferation of 3T3-L1 preadipocyte.Methods: The 3T3-L1 preadipocyte were treated with homocysteine (1 mM), rutin (30 μM) and rutin after homo...