Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Hyperprolactinemia might be related to weight gain, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to evaluate that patients with hyperprolactinemia were higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome than civilian population.Methods: From 1st Jan. 1998 to 17th Nov. 2017, 950 patients newly diagnosed hyperprolactinemia in Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, South Korea, were selected to enroll in a study conducted on hyp...

Background: Osteoporosis frequently occurs in elderly people and is commonly associated with fall and fractures which leads the increase of morbidity and mortality. Therefore, precise prediction of osteoporotic fracture is important in clinical setting. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between baseline compression fracture and trabecular bone score (TBS) and was to assess the ability of TBS to predict vertebral fragility fracture and changes of vo...