Endocrine Abstracts

Research objective: To estimate efficiency of metformin use in children and teenagers with metabolic syndrome (MetS).Materials and methods: Eighty children and teenagers aged 10–16 with exogenous-constitutional obesity (ECO) were observed. From them in 19 (23.8%) MetS was diagnosed according to diagnostic criteria of IDF (2007); 15 of them (78.9% – seven boys and eight girls) were prescribed metformin (Siofor, Berlin Chemie) in dose from 1000 t...

Background: Acromegaly is an uncommon chronic endocrine disorder which is associated with considerable comorbidities. Many patients fail to achieve biochemical control with current medical therapies, including surgery and first-generation somatostatin analogs. We aimed to perform a systematic review and single-arm meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of the multi-receptor ligand somatostatin analog Pasireotide in patients with acromegaly.Methods: We sy...