Endocrine Abstracts

Family history of thyroid disease (Karger 2010) and family history of goiter (Singer 2011, Knudsen 2003, Gebremichael 2020) were found to be associated with risk of goiter though some did not observe this association (Phitayakorn 2006). On participants of the Isparta Menopause and Health (IMH) Study, we measured TSH (n=1099) and thyroid sonographic parameters (n=994) including TV, thyroid nodularity (TN) and heterogeneity (TH). Health related factors and hist...

Endothelial dysfunction is assessed noninvasively by measuring flow-mediated dilation (FMD). However, FMD is strongly dependent on arterial size, which contributes to a wide range of FMD values. It was previously shown that FMD is greater in small arteries, because the shear stimulus during postocclusion hyperemia is greater in small arteries. We aimed to investigate the predictive value of brachial arterial size on FMD in 44–61 years old Turkish women while adjusting for...