Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: This population-based cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the recent trends in the prevalence and treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in a nationally representative sample of Korean patients. We also investigated trends of annual prevalence rate of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and cesarean section (C-section) in patients with GDM.Methods: We used data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment-National Patient Sampl...

Aims/Introduction: It is thought that adipocytokines contribute to the increased riskof vascular complications in type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, some data indicate that adipocytokines may protect against cardiovascular disease. The net effects of adipocytokines on vascular pathology are complex and not completely understood. Although previous our cross-sectional studies showed that adipocytokines such as adiponectin, leptin, and TNF-alfa were associated with vascular complic...

Objective: Although the importance of islet α-cell dysfunction in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes has been reappraised, data on whether increase or decrease of glucagon relative to insulin is related with glucose metabolism parameters or metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD) in clinical settings are very limited. Therefore, we investigated the association between glucagon-to-insulin ratio(G/I ratio) and presence of NAFLD and metabolic para...