Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The frequency of Cushing’s disease (CD), ACTH independent Cushing’s syndrome (CS) and autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS) in patients with obesity is not well known and the results of the studies are heterogeneous. Therefore, in the present study, we aimed to assess the frequency of CD, CS, and ACS among patients with obesity.Methods: In this study, 813 consecutive patients [683 female, mean age 46.47±14.23-year-old, mean BMI 3...

Objective: Despite the high sensitivity of TRAb measured by modern assay methods, some patients with Graves’ disease (GD) may still have normal TRAb levels. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the clinical utility of TRAb measured by a third generation assay method, and to determine it’s relationship with clinical and laboratory parameters in Turkish patients with GD.Methods: In this study, 328 consecutive treatment-naive pati...

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...