Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is a common cause of heart failure in obese patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate diastolic function and its relation to body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese patients by using transthoracic echocardiography.Material and method: A total of 133 cases were enrolled in the study. All anthropometric and laboratory measures were recorded. After measuring two-dimensional and M-mode ec...

Aim: Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality of obesity is associated with classic risk factors, namely dyslipidaemia, hypertension and impaired glucose metabolism. Aim of this study is to evaluate inflammation as an independent risk factor by using neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR).Materials and methods: Patients who admitted to our outpatient clinic between January and December 2014 were assessed retrospectively. Patients diagnosed as diabetes, predi...

Introduction: Several studies have shown that prediabetic patients had increased concentrations of inflammatory markers and this association is independent of underlying obesity. Netrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is considered as a new inflammatory marker and has been studied extensively in a variety of clinical conditions especially in solid tumours and cardiovascular diseases. Studies evaluating the subclinical inflammation in prediabetes revealed positive association of s...