Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The National Health Insurance Service of South Korea is considered to be one of the most effective systems in the world with high accessibility to health care for all Koreans including foreign residents in the country as many as 50 M people. The accumulative information on the behaviors and the statistics of healthcare use based on the National Health Insurance Sharing Service Database has become important for medical research as a nationwide surveillance.<p cl...

Adiponectin has been thought to exert important influences in energy homeostasis and insulin signalling pathway. Some obese individuals showed paradoxical hyperadiponectine-mia (HA), however, the effect of HA on bone metabolism has not been fully clarified.This study aimed to evaluate bone strength and metabolic parameters according to the presence of HA and obesity in Korean adults. A total of 9,172 adults (59.4% women) aged 40–70 years assessed in...