Endocrine Abstracts

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...

A lot of new data have been recently generated regarding the complex relationship between the thyroid function and metabolic parameters.The aim of the study was to estimate the obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS) rates according to the age and the thyroid function in the residents of Belarus.We have examined 894 subjects aged 18–44 years (82.2% females) living in Stolin district, Brest region of Belarus. The endocrinological e...