Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is associated with lower total testosterone (TT) levels in cross – sectional studies. However, it is not known whether the defect is primary or secondary.Method: We investigated the prevalence of hypogonadism in type 2 diabetes in men by measuring serum total testosterone (TT), SHBG, LH, FSH, prolactin (PRL) in 85 men with type 2 diabetes. Free testosterone (FT) was calculated by using TT and SHBG (CFT). Hypogonadism wa...

Introduction: Diabetes is a common disease with many complications; therefore many researches are done on possible factors witch affect on diabetes control and its complications. Homocysteine is one of these possible factors. We studied correlation of homocysteine and diabetes. We also compared homocysteine levels in diabetic patients with nephropathy and patients without nephropathy.Materials and methods: Of 105 diabetic patients and 32 controls were en...