Endocrine Abstracts

In clinical practice, dyslipidaemia defines the elevated plasma total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol or triglycerides or the decreased HDL cholesterol levels. In recent years however, new laboratory methods helped us understand that the functions of lipoproteins are more important than their amounts. Dyslipidaemia is one of the most important and correctable risk factors for the atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The epidemiological data recurrently show a very signi...

Introduction: The evidence shows that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increased in patients with hypogonadism. However, much of the data regarding this association comes from the elderly patients with obesity, hypertension or type 2 diabetes. The total testosterone levels alter physiologically in these conditions and thus can falsify the association. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in young adults with hypogonadism who do not have any c...

Introduction: Intensive insulin treatment in obese patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is often difficult. Insulin dosages are much higher, which further increase weight gain and the risk of hypoglycemia. Glucagon like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) are the promising treatment modalities causing weight loss and reducing the risk of hypoglycemia. There is no published data about the effect of adding on GLP1RAs to obese T2DM patients with un-controlled glucose levels un...

Background: Idiopatic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is a congenital abnormality due to GnRH deficiency which is associated with severe osteoporosis. Testosterone replacement has been shown to improve the loss in the bone mass. The aim of the present retrospective analysis was to measure the effect of human chorionic gonadotropin treatment on the improvement of bone mineral density.Methods: A total number of 96 young male (mean age 21±3.7 years) pati...

Introduction: Hemoglobin (Hb) is the main carrier and buffer of Nitric oxide. Recently, an inverse association between Hb and the endothelium dependent relaxation was observed in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Testing whether this association exists also in diabetic nephropathy is important because anemia in these patients starts at an earlier stage than in other renal disease. Also, at population level diabetes and renal dysfunction, particularly albuminuria, contribute indep...

Introduction: Patients with hypogonadism are at increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. Mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) are hematological indices that are surrogate markers of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. This study investigated the platelet count, MPV levels, PLR, and NLR in patients with congenital hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (CHH) and also studied the effect of testosterone replacement thera...

Objective: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a life-threatening genetic disease associated with elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and premature coronary heart disease that is globally underdiagnosed and undertreated. This study aimed to search for the demographical characteristics, awareness and treatment adherence of underdiagnosed or undertreated FH patients from the records of the central biochemistry laboratory.Methods: Patient...

Introduction: The prevalence of cardiometabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, dysipidemia and metabolic syndrome is increased in patients with Klinefelter syndrome (KS). The mechanism by which cardiometabolic risk increases in patients with KS remains to be completely elucidated. We investigated the presence of inflammation, insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction in an unconfounded population of KS.Methods: A total of 31 patients wi...

Introduction: Patients with hypogonadism are at increased risk of cardiac and metabolic diseases. The pathogenesis of increased cardio-metabolic risk in hypogonadal patients is not clear. Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of cardio-metabolic diseases. The aim of this study was to search for any difference of the oxidative stress parameters between in patients with hypogonadism and healthy controls.Materials and Methods: Thirty ...

Objective: Radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment has been reported to be associated to increased cardiovascular events and death compared to the general population, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and insulin resistance play important roles in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic events. We aimed to compare papillary thyroid carcinoma patients receiving levothyroxine suppression therapy after bilateral total thyroidectomy with or w...