Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Our aim was to evaluate whether multiple mild head trauma or repetitive heading of long term soccer playing causes growth hormone deficiency.Patients and methods: 28 retired previously professional male soccer players were investigated. Nine of them had sport related head injuries. Mean age: 48.7 years (range 36–70; S.D.±7.4); mean sport duration (professional and senior activity): 27.4 years (S.D.±...

Background: The detectable levels of thyroid antibodies in patients suffering from Riedel’s chronic fibrosing thyroiditis (RT) suggest a link between RT and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, but the pathogenesis of RT is not really known. Lyme disease is the most frequent tick-borne infection with variable manifestations in different organs caused by Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb).Case report: A 59-year-old woman presented in our outpatient clinic wit...

Objective: To identify MetS and non-MetS in subjects with adult-onset GHD before start of GH replacement and to compare prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors.Subjects and methods: MetS was defined (IDF criteria) by the obligatory presence of increased waist circumference (WC) and presence of at least two of following components: hypertension, decreased HDL-cholesterol, increased triglycerides, diabetes mellitus. The complementary group was defined as...

Background: Untreated GH-deficiency (GHD) in adults has been suggested to be associated with an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Proposed causative factors are the tendency to overweight and the insulin resistance due to central adiposity.Patients and methods: The KIMS (Pfizer International Metabolic Database) was used to evaluate the prevalence of DM in both childhood-onset (CO; n=1977; 56% males) and in adult-onset (AO; ...