Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: There is little data available regarding the effects of male sex hormones on cardiac autonomic function. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between male sex steroids and cardiac autonomic function by comparing heart rate variability (HRV) parameters of young male hypogonadotropic hypogonadism patients to those of healthy controls.Design: The study consisted of 22 male hypogonadotropic hypogonadism patients (mean age 20.8&#177...

Background: Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) was discovered as a tumor product. It is also one of the complex epithelial and mesenchymal interaction signal mediator in breast development. An increase in the prevalence of malignancy in patients with Klinefelter’s syndrome, but not in patients with idiopathic gynecomastia has been previously reported. PTHrP may play a critical role in the development or progression of breast cancer.Aim: We ...

Introduction: Hypopituitarism is defined as either partial or complete deficiency of anterior or posterior pituitary hormone secretion or both. Hypopituitarism itself may increase the risk of thromboembolism/hypercoagulopathy, and underlying mechanisms of hemostatic dysfunctions in hypopituitarism are mostly unknown. Reduced enzymatic activity due to methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene mutations are associated with hyperhomocysteinemia and have been linked to both...

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...

Visfatin is a newly discovered adipocyte hormone. Recent studies showed a possible relationship between diabetes mellitus and visfatin level. But the effect of visfatin on the insulin resistance was not well understood. The aim of the present study was to explore the relation of visfatin with insulin resistance in patients with prediabetes and diabetes.We included a total of 128 persons in the study and of these 128 persons, 36 were diabetic, 69 were pre...

Introduction: Recent studies showed that post-menopausal osteoporosis and weight gain starts at the perimenopause stage, a period characterized by relatively stable estrogen and rising FSH levels. FSH is found to be associated with adiposity in women, which is also a great risk factor for type 2 DM. There is also a sharp increase in visceral adiposity during this life stage, which coincides with the emergence of disrupted energy balance and reduced physical activity. There is ...

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 ...