Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0029p1251 | Obesity | ICEECE2012

A different method in obesity treatment; external gastric balloon

Basak M. , Gozden H. , Aktas H. , Saler T.

Obesity is an important and chronic disease. It is known that obesity closely related with many chronic disorders.Also it is known as a result of serious morbidity and mortality. For treatment of obesity, dietary, medicine, egzercise and surgery should be useful but they have also some adverse effects and surgery should be cause of mortality and severe morbidity.Our method of EGB is completely non-invasive and we investigated the efficacy of obesity trea...

ea0029p1282 | Obesity | ICEECE2012

The correlation between metabolic syndrome and serum resistin, adiponectin, TNFα, leptin levels and abdominal adipose tissue thickness

Basak M. , Gozden H. , Ayeser T. , Saler T.

Advanced research to investigate possible methods of treatment in patients with metabolic syndrome is required. Adipocytokines are secreted by the adipose tissue. These polypeptides and their functions are also known last few years.Adipocytokines are also anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic, and they increase insulin sensitivity. As result of these skills, adipocytokines should be useful for diagnosis and treatment for metabolic syndrome. In this study...