Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: We investigated associations between hemoglobin glycation index (HGI) and incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) in treatment naïve subjects with prediabetes or diabetes.Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in 2,187 subjects with prediabetes or diabetes. The HGI was calculated as the measured HbA1c minuspredicted HbA1c, which was calculated from the linear relationship between HbA1c and fastingplasma glucose levels. Incident ...

Prolactinoma predominantly occurred in young women of reproductive age. But there are limited data about the effect of pregnancy and lactation on prolactinoma progression. We evaluated the safety of dopamine agonists including bromocriptine and cabergoline and pregnancy outcome in prolactinoma patients. Patients diagnosed with prolactinoma who experienced pregnancies were included. Sellar MRI and serum prolactin levels were performed before and after pregnancy and lactation. T...

Background and aims: Recently, a metabolic syndrome severity score (MS score) using a dataset of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys has been developed. We aimed to determine whether the newly developed score is a significant predictor of cardiovascular (CV) events among the Korean population.Methods: From the Korean National Health Insurance System, 2,541,364 (aged 40–59 years) subjects with no history of CV events (ischemi...