Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: To evaluate the process of patients from emergency room (ER) admittance until discharge from the endocrinology service (ES) with hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.Methods: Two hundred twenty two patients either with hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia were evaluated. Hyperglycemic patients were divided into three groups: Patients with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and patients without diabetic history. The complaints, laboratory findings, stay in ER, stay...

Aims: Bening and malignant thyroid nodules are the most common lesions of endocrine glands. Some molecular markers; Mut-S homolog-2 (MSH2) and Mut-L-homolog-1 (MLH1) are the two of DNA repair proteins and metil guanin–DNA-metil transferase (MGMT) is the DNA repair enzymes have been studied. In this study, our aim is to evaluate MSH2, MLH1, and MGMT levels in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), multinodular colloidal goitre (MNG), and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) and ...

Introduction: It was shown that a relationship between uric acid and cardiovascular diseases, and hyperuricemia is associated with systemic inflammation. But, determination of uric acid is widely available and inexpensive, it has been overlooked as a marker of systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbances. In this study, we aimed to evaluate uric acid value and its association with inflammation and metabolic disturbances in overweight and obese Turkish women.<p class="a...

Aim: Increased levels of fasting parathyroid hormone(PTH) have been hypothesized to influence increased levels of body fat mass. Preliminary studies show that serum PTH levels are higher in obese than in non-obese young adults and decline with weight loss. In the present study, it was aimed to evaluate relationship between antropometric and metabolic risk parameters and PTH levels in Turkish women.Materials and methods: Analyses were performed on 710 Tur...

Aim: Serum calcium levels have a relation glucose homeostasis and weight management, and controversies in findings. This study carried out relationship between serum calcium levels and various metabolic parameters in obese Turkish Women.Materials and methods: Subjects for this study were 3544 overweight or obese Turkish women with mean level of serum calcium 9.4 md/dl. According to mean calcium level, they divided group I having >9.4 mg/dl and group ...

Introduction: Age at menarche reflects various health aspects including the timing of sexual maturation, growth and nutritional status, and enviromental conditions. This study carried out assesment obesity risk and the relationship between obesity, metabolic parameters and age at menarche in a series of Turkish women.Materials and methods: In a survey of obesity outpatient clinic, 4212 women who have mean age 38.5±12.1 years and ages at menarche bet...

Introduction: Serum ferritin concentration was found to be related with dyslipidemia, hypertension and abdominal adiposity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlations between serum ferritin concentrations and metabolic risk markers in obesity.Methods: Obese 534 women were enrolled into the study. The patients were divided into three tertiles according to the serum ferritin concentrations. The mean serum ferritin concentration was 9.96±4.1...

Introduction: The body fat distribution chances with menopause in women. The gluteo-femoral fat dominancy alters with central adiposity via menopause. The incidence of cardiovascular atherosclerosis increases with this period. Altered lipid profile and the increment in abdominal adipose tissue are suggested to be the influencing factors of this situation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the metabolic and anthropometric features of premenopausal and postmenopausal obese w...

In this study 32 acromegalic patients were retrospectively evaluated with respect to the results of different primary treatment procedures. Study group was composed of 32 acromegalic patients admitted to our department between the years 1979-2002 (20 females, 12 males; mean age 45.2 plus/minus 14.3 years, mean follow-up: 80.7 plus/minus 62.9 months). Patients were grouped according to the primary treatment approach: 1) Patients underwent pituitary surgery (n: 28; 21 macroadeno...

Objective: The status of carbohydrate metabolism of pregnant women with positive glucose challenge test (GCT), but normal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT); and their neonates have not defined clearly.Methods: Pregnant women with normal GCT (n: 120), with abnormal glucose challenge test (AGCT) but normal OGTT (n: 67) and those with gestational diabetes (GDM) (n: 67) were included into the study. Local ethical committee approval was ...