Endocrine Abstracts

Approximately 20 percent of the world’s working population is working shifts. The shift working system that affects such a large population often causes circadian rhythm disturbances. These disorders adversely affect nutritional habits and quality, sleep patterns and quality, and body composition. The risk of chronic diseases, especially obesity and diabetes, increases due to the direct and indirect effects of disruption in the circadian rhythm. The aim of this study is ...

Introduction: There is some evidence shows daily consumption of milk/dairy products prevents obesity and many diseases. Even in adulthood, the consumption of adequate milk/dairy products in childhood is protective of obesity. Therefore, balanced consumption of milk/dairy products is thought to prevent obesity or overweight, which is an important health problem nowadays. In our study, we aimed to determine whether there is a relationship between the consumption of milk/dairy pr...

Objective: There is a risk of malignancy in 5–10 percent of all thyroid nodules. The most common type of thyroid cancer is papillary thyroid cancer (PTC).There are some risk factors has been found in differentiated thyroid cancers like high iodine intake. However, in people with severe or moderate iodine nutritional deficiency (<75 µg/day),an increased risk of thyroid cancer was found 2.6 times higher than those with optimal iodine nutrition (150–299 &#181...

Introduction: Primary pituitary sarcoma causally unrelated to radiotherapy, but an increased risk of second brain tumors continues beyond 20 and 30 year after treatment.We report an acromegalic patient with intrasellar giant adenoma invased suprasellar and nasal cavity during follow-up after radiotherapy.Case: A 39-year-old woman had transsphenoidal and transcranial operation in 2002 and 2003 respectively. She had also conventional...

Nodular Goiter Disease is very common, its prevalence varies between 26 and 67%. This rate is higher in iodine deficient regions. Recent data indicate that the incidence of both benign and malignant thyroid nodules is increasing. The most important factor in noduler guatr is iodine deficiency. The reported prevalence of nodular disease depends on which population is studied and the methods used to detect the nodules. There are other risk factors that lead to an increased incid...

Introduction: We report a case of paraganglioma of glomus caroticum with lung metastases treated with 150 mCi 131I-MIBG.Case: A 25-year-old woman was referred to our department for cachexia. She had low BMI (18) normotension, mild normochromic normocytic anemia with a mass under left mandibula. Radiologic imaging of neck revealed that 24×36×45 mm diameter mass surrounding of carotis externa and interna at the level of bifurcation. She underwent...