Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Previous data shows that weight reduction decreases serum retinol binding protein-4 (RBP4) level. But it is not yet clear whether decreases in body weight resulted from exercise, will be accompanied by the changes of RBP4 protein expression in liver and adipose tissues in type 2 diabetes. Thus we designed this study to evaluate the ability of 7 weeks exercise to reverse the changes in body weight, insulin resistance (IR), serum RBP4 and its expression in liver an...

Introduction: We designed this study, to investigate the effect of a single resistance exercise session on serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and cardiometabolic riskfactors in trained and untrained young healthy male students and to evaluate whether regular training may affect the response of these markers to exercise.Method: According to training status 34 healthy male students divided to 19 trained and 15 untrained groups. Each group was then randomly div...

Introduction: High waist circumference and triglyceride (TG) disturbances are two important and diagnostic components constituting the metabolic syndrome. This study was designed to investigate whether herbal medicine, Anethum graveolens (dill) extract, is capable to improve abdominal obesity presented by high waist circumference and triglyceride in patients with metabolic syndrome.Design: A total of 24 mens and womens who met the criteria of metabolic s...

Introduction: Maternal thyroid deficiency can induce serious adverse events on both mother and fetus during the whole period of pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to determine various epidemiological aspects of thyroid dysfunction among persian pregnant women.Methods: Four hundred-eighty pregnant women with a mean age of 26.9±5 regardless of their gestational age were registered. After recording their medical history, serum samples were collec...