Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Thyroid hormone has an important role for skin growth and development. Alopecia is one of the clinical feature of autoimmune hypothyroidism or systemic autoimmune diseaseCase IllustrationA 18-year-old Indonesian woman presented with alopecia universalis. It started with a patchy hair loss which then progress to all of her body. At the age of 15 she had complaints of neck enlargement, palpitation, weight loss, and heat i...

Background: The prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in Indonesia is increasing. One of the major socio-environmental factors that might contribute to this is urbanization, which is associated with changes into more sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet. These changes can lead to obesity. The metabolic risks of obesity are mainly determined by the body fat content. The higher the body fat content the higher insulin resistance and hence susceptibility of T2DM. The ...