Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Recently, a metabolic syndrome severity score (MS score) using a dataset of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys has been developed. We aimed to determine whether the newly developed score is a significant predictor of cardiovascular (CV) events among the Korean population.Methods: From the Korean National Health Insurance System, 2,541,364 (aged 40–59 years) subjects with no history of CV events (ischemi...

Aim: Suicide and depression are one of the highest public health problems worldwide. Suicidal ideation represents an important phase in the suicidal process and often precedes suicidal attempts or completed suicide. Patients with chronic medical disease are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and depression. However the studies on relationship between these conditions and metabolic syndrome are rare. We aimed at investigating the prevalence of depression and suicidal ideat...

Aim: An international expert committee, after considering data on association of HbA1c and retinopathy, recommended that diabetes be diagnosed when HbA1c is more than 48 mmol/mol (>6.5%), provided this assay is done in a standardized laboratory. However, the performance of HbA1c in detecting diabetes in the Korean population remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of HbA1c in diagnosing diabetes and to identify the optimal threshold in the...

Aim: HbA1c is recommended as a diagnostic criterion for diabetes in clinical practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes in 2011 (10). Although there have been several reports that compared HbA1c-based diagnosis for diabetes with glucose-based diagnosis in Koreans, it is thought that larger epidemiological studies are required to confirm the association of HbA1c and FPG for diagnosis of diabetes for the Korean population. We conducted this study to examine the relationship between...