Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Cardiovascular events are the major cause of mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). Menopause in women additionally increases cardiovascular risk. Despite myocardial infarction (MI) treatment approach in diabetic patients is not specific, some glucose-lowering drugs could have cardioprotective properties. In general, most glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1Ra) and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) have cardiova...

Background: Recently, clinical evidence of thyroid dysfunction has been observed both in acute and post-COVID period. The aim of this study was to estimate the serum TSH level in hospitalized patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19.Methods: It was a single-center study conducted by the Almazov National Medical Research Centre (Russian Federation). Patients hospitalized with detected SARS-CoV-2 infection by RT-PCR test and chest computed tomography (CT)...

Background: Recent studies demonstrated clinical benefits of cholecalciferol supplementation among COVID-19 hospitalized patients. However, features of vitamin D metabolism in the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection remain unclear.Aim: to estimate the level of 25(OH)D and 1,25(OH)2D as well as oral bolus cholecalciferol supplementation effect on the dynamic of vitamin D metabolites in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.Materials and Me...