Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Different programmes are offered to help people to reduce weight. ‘The Programme of Weight Loss’ is working in the outpatient clinic in the Arkhangelsk, Russia, but its effectiveness was not assessed before.Aim of the study was to assess the effect of the complex course ‘The Programme of Weight Loss’.Methods: The panel study was conducted and included women participated in the two-week Programme from...

Introduction: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in obesity cannot be explained only by increased body mass (BM), BMI, or arterial hypertension (AH). Aim was to investigate possible clinical or hormonal predictors of LVH.Materials and methods: We examined women before The Programme of Weight Loss. The echocardiography was performed; mass of myocardium of LV (MMLV), relative wall thickness (RWT) and indexed MMLV (IMMLV) by body surface area were calculate...