Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Grip strength is a valuable biomarker of an individual’s biological age. Weak grip strength is a key component of sarcopenia and frailty and is associated with subsequent poor health, disability and mortality. Skeletal muscle is one of the major target organs of thyroid hormones. Hyperthyroidism may affect skeletal muscles qualitatively and quantitatively, to the extent of developing muscle weakness and myopathy. There are few studies investigating grip stre...

Aim: The aim of this prospective study is to assess if there is any correlation between parathyroid hyperplasia detected by ultrasound and variables connected with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5, treated by dialysis and to determine the PTH level, above which the hyperplasia of parathyroid glands could be visualized.Methods: Thirty-one patients (14 men and 17 women) with CKD stage 5, treated by ...

Aim: The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the lipid disturbances in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis.Methods: 1380 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, hospitalized in Endocrinology department of ‘St. Marina’ Hospital, Varna for the period of 2004–2015 year, participated in the study. After excluding conditions influencing lipid profile, 771 patients remained for analysis (36 men and 735 women, mean age 49.81±13.98 ye...