Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Obesity is a serious health problem that has reached very high proportions in our country; prevalence of obesity and overweight together is 56%. Obesity is strongly associated with risk factors for cardio and cerebrovascular disease, AH, type 2 diabetes and cognitive disorders. The aim of our study was to analyze the impact of AH and weight change on carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and cognitive function in Georgian nondiabetic obese and overweight hyperte...