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 and backgroundAccording to world diabetes-focused organizations (EASD and IDF) the number of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity is increasing tremendously all over the world. The FTO gene (Fat mass and obesity-associated gene) was noticed during GWAS-study at 2007, when it’s multiple polymorphic variants were detected, many of which were associated with obesity and T2DM. Significant differences in allele prevalenc...