Endocrine Abstracts

Background and Objectives: Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is considered as a marker of cellular aging. Brown adipose tissue in women has been claimed to be associated with long life in women. Neuregulin-4 is a new batokine secreted from brown adipose tissue, and it is thought to play a role in the regulation of glucose, lipid metabolism and energy balance. The aim of the study is to examine LTL and serum Neuregulin-4 levels as well as their relations with disease activity, co...

Introduction: Although skin tag is associated with diabetes mellitus, no data in the literature show that the presence of skin tag is associated with diabetic macro and microangiopathy. The purpose of this study was to investigate frequency of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, macro and micro angiopathy in type 2 diabetic patients with and without skin tag.Methods/Design: We evaluated 99 (40 female and 59 male) type 2 diabetic patients. All patients w...