Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D is a hormone that acts through the Vitamin D receptor (VDR) not only on the skeletal system but on a great number of target tissues, including thyroid gland. In recent years the association of vitamin D with autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), has been suggested.VDR gene polymorphisms had been associated with an increased risk of AITD. In addition a recent meta-analysis showed that AITD patients had lower level of 25-hydroxyvitami...

Introduction: Increased blood pressure (BP) above >115/75 mmHg presents an independent association with cardiovascular events. Although there is a clear benefit of bariatric surgery on BP of hypertensive patients, the impact in non-hypertensive patients remains largely unknown. Therefore, the aim of our work was to evaluate the impact of bariatric surgery on BP of non-hypertensive obese patients.Methods: We evaluated a cohort of 224 non-hypertensive ...