Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Thyroid hormones act both insulin agonistic and antagonistic in different organs. Studies that evaluate the relationship between insulin resistance and hypo-hyperthyroidism have conflicting results, even euthyroid status was shown to change insulin sensitivity. In this study, our aim is to investigate the association between TSH, free T4, free T3 levels and insulin resistance in euthyroid patients.Method: Euthyroid 57 males, 47...

Aim: Diabetes mellitus affects many systems and one of them is skin. Skin findings among diabetic patients reported 30–71%. Skin findings may be due to direct metabolic effects of diabetes but complications and drugs may be cause as well. In this study our aim was to investigate the skin findings and prevalence among diabetic patients that admitted to endocrinology policlinic.Method: 81 patients involved to study, skin examination of the patients we...