Endocrine Abstracts

It has been well known the primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common endocrine hypertension, and it is accounted approximately 10% of all hypertensive patients. It is always challenging for physicians which tests we should select for the confirmatory tests for the patients with aldosterone-renin retio (ARR) positive. We analyzed our 83 PA patients for the sensitivity of each confirmatory test.We screened those PA suspicious patients by ARR and we con...

It is known that brown rice (BR) prevents obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans. Previous studies have shown that exaggerated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the hypothalamus of obese mice is linked to hyperphagia. Here we tested the hypothesis that BR might decrease ER stress in hypothalamus, leading to the attenuation the preference for dietary fat.Eight-week-old mice were randomly divided into three groups: the control, BR-containing diet, and th...