Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in obesity cannot be explained only by increased body mass (BM), BMI, or arterial hypertension (AH). Aim was to investigate possible clinical or hormonal predictors of LVH.Materials and methods: We examined women before The Programme of Weight Loss. The echocardiography was performed; mass of myocardium of LV (MMLV), relative wall thickness (RWT) and indexed MMLV (IMMLV) by body surface area were calculate...

Background: Increased leptin levels are revealed in obese patients and known to predict the development of the ischemic heart disease, but the information about leptin’s effects on the course of the acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) is scarce.Aim: To assess plasma leptin levels in patients with AMI and MetS and to study the relationships between leptin and early complications of AMI.<p class="abstex...