Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aim: Revelation of the incidence of CH is of great value at the background of iodine deficiency (ID) existing in Georgia. Screening on CH in our company with consequent monitoring of the newborns with neonatal hyperthyreotropinemia (NHT) started in September 2010.Materials and methods: During the first year period 70 731 newborns from all over Georgia underwent TSH (mU/l) determination from blood spots, taken at 24–72 h after birth an...

The aim: To reveal relation between altered left ventricular (LV) geometry (G) and contractile ability (CA) in nonbese type 2 diabetic (DM2) patients with mild hypertension (MH).Materials and methods: BP at rest, 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring and echocardiography were investigated in 70 non-obese males, aged 25–50 yrs. They were divided into the following groups: Gr.1, n=15 – DM2 and normal BP, fasting C-peptide (C-p, ng/ml) 4.3±0.9...