Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To investigate the herbal medicines (HM) used for thyroid disease, their effects and use rates in Turkey.Materials and methods: A total of 547 patients (494 females and 53 males) had a thyroid disease were included in the study. The patients were questioned whether they used any alternative therapies or HM for their thyroid disease. The patients who used HM were asked about the kind of the HM, and duration of use. The data regarding the dose of the ...

Aim: In our study we aimed to investigate neutrophil/lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, variations in leukocytes and leukocyte subtypes and relationship between N/L ratio and insulin resistance (IR) in obesity.Material and methods: In this study 250 obese patients data were scanned retrospectively and 96 patients that are convenient to inclusion criteria and has complete file information were included in the study. Forty healthy individual with similar age and sex ...