Endocrine Abstracts

Hyperinsulinism has been shown to trigger sympathetic activity experimentally, however the clinical and epidemiologic data on the association of heart rate with hyperinsulinism and insulin resistance. This study was investigated the relationship between insulin resistance and exercise test parameters in unselected consecutive middle aged asymptomatic patients with type II diabetes.Ninety asymptomatic type II diabetics between the ages 36 and 60 without a...

Accelerated coronary and peripheral vascular atherosclerosis is one of the most common and chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. A relatively recently analysed aspect of coronary artery disease in this condition is its silent nature. We studied silent myocardial ischaemia (SMI) in unselected consecutive middle aged asymptomatic patients with type II diabetes by treadmill exercise test.Ninety four asymptomatic type II diabetics between the ages 36 a...

Objective: The relationship between metabolic syndrome (MS) and hypogonadism has always been investigated in study groups confounded with aging, obesity or chronic metabolic disorders. So far there has been no data about the presence of MS in young hypogonadal patients. Also there is controversial data about the metabolic effects of testosteron replacement therapy. We investigated the frequency of MS in treatment naïve, young men with congenital hypogonadal hypogonadism (...