Endocrine Abstracts

In this study we compared plasma adiponectin levels between patients with non-functional adrenal incidentaloma and subclinical Cushing’s syndrome. Our aims were to determine whether there was any difference of plasma adiponectin levels, any relation between cardiovasculer risk factors and to investigate the importance of adiponectin levels in subclinical Cushing’s syndrome patients according to non-functional adrenal incidentaloma patients. The patients referred from...

Objective: Our aim was to determine the prevalence and clinicopathological characteristics of thyroid cancers in the dialysis population and to evaluate potential risk factors.Design: We performed a retrospective analysis of our end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis and thyroidectomized patients without ESRD (2000–2006). Then we compared the data of thyroid cancer patients on dialysis (n=9) with the data of patients who had hist...

Objective: The thiazolidinediones are new and potentially useful developments in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance. We tested the effects of the thiazolidinedione, rosiglitazone on blood pressure in normotensive type 2 diabetes.Methods: After receiving approval from the local ethics committee, 25 normotensive diabetic patients were were enrolled to the study. Before the rosiglitazone treatment we measured plasma glucose, HbA...

Objective: Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) have become a powerful tool for lowering insulin resistance. The problem of cardiovascular adverse events including fluid retention and risk of heart failure, although of a low incidence, should be well known and recognized. We aimed to evaluate the effects of rosiglitazone treatment on cardiac function and show whether these effects are reversible when we continued this treatment.Methods: Fourty-six type 2 diabetic p...