Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma have an increased prevalence of insulin resistance and, diabetes increases the risk of thyroid cancer. In this study we aimed to evaluate tumor features in diabetic and non-diabetic differentiated thyroid cancer patients.Methods: One hundred patients with differentiated thyroid cancer were enrolled in the study. Twenty one of the 100 patients were diagnosed as diabetic and 79 non-diabetic. All par...

Background and aim: Serum Cystatin C has been shown to be associated with the progression to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus. High cystatin levels were also found to be associated with body mass index. The aim of this study was to evaluate cystatin C levels in diabetic and prediabetic patients ant its association with anthropometric measurements and insulin resistance.Methods: Twenty four patients with diabetes, 17 patients with prediabetes and ...

Background and aim: Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis pathogenesis remains unclear in spite of many factors currently suggested. Aim of the study was to explore the relationship between hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT), goiter formation, and to see if HGF levels are adjusted by TSH suppression.Materials and methods: Sixty-one premenopausal women who admitted our department between November 2010-September 2011 were enrolled ...