Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the outcome after initiation of exenatide therapy and to determine whether the impact of adverse drug reactions on compliance was affected by gender.Methods: A retrospective study was performed of 18 diabetic patients (eight males) that were prescribed exenatide between June 2013 and September 2014. Each included patient received exenatide for ≥1 month. Age, disease course, race, BMI, medical his...

Objective: To investigate the impact of lifestyle intervention on elevated thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibody levels in outpatients with normal thyroid function.Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed to observe and evaluate euthyroid patients with excessive TPO antibodies that presented to the authors’ hospital between March 2013 and October 2014 for routine medical examinations. The subjects were randomly divided into the lifestyle inte...