Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Obesity and vitamin D deficiency are become most important public health problems independently. We aimed to investigate the relationship between vitamin D levels and metabolic sydrome (MetS) in obese children and adolescents.Patients and methods: 51 obese children/adolescents at the age of 12.4±2.73 (7.0–18.0) years and 48 age–sex matched healthy controls were enrolled. Serum 25 OHD, 1,25 (OH)2 D, calcium, phosphorus, alkal...

Objective: To investigate the changes in serum creatine kinase (CK) levels during the treatment of patients with growth hormone (GH).Methods: We evaluated 715 cases who were treated with GH retrospectively. The clinical data of 20 children with severe CK elevation (>500 IU/L) were analyzed.Results: CK elevation was recorded in 96 of the cases (13.5%) during GH theraphy. 20 of these patients had severe CK elevation. The mean age...