Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity and weight excess is a widespread condition all over the world, as well as thyroid nodular disease. Screening studies in different populations prove a higher frequency of nodular thyroid formations of various nature in overweight individuals.Aim: In our study, we evaluated the dynamics of the volume of dominant and non-dominant nodular formations, as well as their sonographic structure in overweight patients with prediabetes in the groups with tw...

Introduction & BackgroundA COVID-19 pandemic smashed the world not only by it`s severity, but also by the tremendous amount of comorbidities, many of them having autoimmune basis. Thyrotoxicosis as one of the above - could result either from SARS-CoV-2 directly infecting the thyroid gland, as described in other viral infections, or can develop due to immune overactivation during the severe viral load. Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a self-limiting inf...

The rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity is one of the most challenging dilemmas facing endocrinologists all over the world today. The aim of our research was within the framework of the National Campaign ‘Early Detection and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus’ to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and overweight in the Belarusian population.Materials and methods: The Campaign involved opportunistic screening of individuals applying to th...