Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The number of patients with type 2 diabetes with mental problems will increase in the coming years1. The fight against diabetes cannot be reduced only to the competent prescription of medications, but should be carried out comprehensively taking into account numerous barriers.Aims: The objective of this study was to investigate prevalence and impact of anxious and depressive reactions among persons living with type 2 diabetes in Be...

BackgroundThe prevention of complications and improvement of metabolic control and state of health in diabetes cannot be effective only with medications. And now we need to develop different approaches – not only up to date pharmacological treatment of diabetes, but change the Self-Management Behavior among patients with Type 2 Diabetes.AimsTo assess the current status of diabetic self-management behavio...

BackgroundThe current COVID-19 pandemic is the worst from world infection outbreaks have occurred frequently in the last two decades, and it has led to significant mortality. Although the respiratory system is the most prominent target of SARS-CoV-2, extrapulmonary involvement are important contributors of its morbidity and mortality. A number of symptoms occur in these patients due to the involvement of various endocrine glands. The nervous, endocrine, ...

Hyponatremia - a decrease in serum sodium to 135 mmol/l or less can lead to serious complications. In patients with various pathologies and serum sodium levels of 120–125 mmol/l mortality reaches 23%, in levels less than 115 mmol/l - 50%. Biochemical verification of hyponatremia is not difficult. It is difficult to establish the cause and treatment of chronic hyponatremia. Patient S., 64 years old, was hospitalized in a state of alcoholic intoxication with a diagnosis of ...

Obesity and weight excess is a widespread condition all over the world, as well as thyroid nodular disease. Screening studies in different populations prove a higher frequency of nodular thyroid formations of various nature in overweight individuals.Aim: In our study, we evaluated the dynamics of the volume of dominant and non-dominant nodular formations, as well as their sonographic structure in overweight patients with prediabetes in the groups with tw...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited disorder, characterized by a high predisposition to develop a wide spectrum of endocrine and nonendocrine tumors, mostly of parathyroids, endocrine pancreas, and anterior pituitary.Methods: Analysis of clinical and laboratory data, family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia.Results: A 19-year-old woman with autoimmune thyroiditis a...

Introduction and backgroundAccording to world diabetes-focused organizations (EASD and IDF) the number of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity is increasing tremendously all over the world. The FTO gene (Fat mass and obesity-associated gene) was noticed during GWAS-study at 2007, when it’s multiple polymorphic variants were detected, many of which were associated with obesity and T2DM. Significant differences in allele prevalenc...