Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Studies on thyroid hormones in obese adult patients are contradictory. Moreover, little is known about the effect of weight loss on thyroid functions. Thus, we aimed to investigate thyroid hormone status, and possible effect of weight loss on thyroid hormones in obese patients.Methods: We study population consisted of 39 (35 female, 4 male) euthyroid obese patients with mean age 42.76±10.52 years. Of these 19 patients were morbid obese. ...

Aim/background: The consumption of herbal weight-loss products sold over the Internet has rapidly increased, but the safety profile of these products has not been well known yet. Likewise, the declared ingredients in these products could be different than the marketed contents.Material and Methods: Nine different herbal weight-loss products sold over the Internet were included. The content of each product were evaluated in the Laboratory of Forensic Medi...

Objective: Accumulating data suggests that post-prandial hypertriglyceridemia is important in the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis, and thus cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to assess the acute effect of the orlistat vs placebo on post-prandial triglyceride (TG) level in diabetic and non-diabetic obese patients.Research Design and Methods: Study population consisted of 49 patients with obesity (25 non-diabetics, 24 diabetic). Patients wer...