Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: It has been shown that women with PCOS as well as with autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT), are characterized by increased incidence of infertility. Serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), which reflects ovarian reserve, is elevated in PCOS women and is decreased in women with AIT. The Rotterdam criteria recognize four clinical PCOS phenotypes,i.e.,phenotype Acharacterized by clinical and/or biochemical hyperandrogenism (HA), menstrual dysfunction (oligo/amenorrhea) (Olig...

Introduction: Resistin is a cysteine–rich adipokine that was originally described as a molecular link between obesity and insulin resistance. Our previous study showed higher serum resistin levels in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in comparison with healthy pregnant women however conflicting results have been reported by other authors. Therefore in the present study we investigated whether there were significant differences in resistin mRNA expression i...

The risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development is related to BMI, therefore this disease mainly occurs among overweight (OW) and obese (OB) people. However lean (L) individuals may also suffer from T2DM. The evolution of T2DM is a multistep process and starts with insulin resistance (IR), which may evolve into pre-diabetic state i.e.: impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). In up to 70% of patients pre-diabetic state evolves into T2DM. ...

Introduction: The genome-wide association studies have recently expanded the number of genetic susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes and obesity. Transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene seems to be one of the most predictive identifiable factors promoting T2DM development. It has been suggested that TCF7L2 influences pancreatic β-cell function butthe effect of genetic variants of TCF7L2 on metabolic syndrome development is not well characterized among subje...