Endocrine Abstracts

Although obesity is a powerful risk factor for developing metabolic syndrome (MetS), it is not present in all obese individuals. Increased visceral adipose tissue is the hallmark of this syndrome. In this cross sectional survey abdominal bioelectrical impedence was used to measure the visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and trunk fat percentages (TF%) in participants. A total of 286 patients (196 female and 90 males) were enrolled in the study. In both sexes VAT was significantly po...

Aim: We aimed to compare the cut off values, defined to express the excess total body fat (TBF) percentange and increased fat mass index (FMI) as predictors of metabolic syndrome (MS).Subjects and methods: A total of 162 obese (body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m2) subjects’ TBF were measured by ‘Tanita TBF 300 Body Composition Analyzer’. Patients were divided into two groups called normal obese (NO) and fatty obese (FO) accordin...

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a group of metabolic abnormalities where insulin resistance (IR) plays a major role. Previous studies have shown that thyroid volume and nodule prevalence were increased in patients with IR. The aim of our study is to evaluate MetS and its components in patients with benign and malignant nodular thyroid disease (NTD).Methods: A total of 800 patients (430 euthyroid benign and 370 euthyroid malignant NTD) followed...

Introduction: Factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) are controversial and research on the topic is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the factors that may affect HRQOL and admitting symptoms in a group of patients with HT.Methods: For the evaluation of HRQOL, SF-36, Beck anxiety scale and Beck depression scale were performed on subsequent 57 cases with HT admitting to outpatient clinic of Endocri...

Introduction: Despite the relation between Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and development of malignancy is well known, data on antidiabetic drugs and cancer risk is contradictory. Thesis which have suggested that analogue insulins, especially glargine, increase cancer risk, has not been validated. The present study aimed to evaluate the possible contributions of diabetes durations and medications to the type and course of malignancy in patients with both diabetes and malignancy...

Introduction: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a vision threatening chronic microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). The potential roles of GH and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) in DR have been evaluated in vitro and in vivo. The present study aimed to assess the frequency and severity of retinopathy in acromegalic patients with various disease activity and glucose tolerance states (GTS).Methods: All acromegalic patients follo...