Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Excess of abdominal fat may disturb metabolic parameters that affect insulin level and may lead to menstrual disorders, consecutively to disturbance in sex steroids production. The aim is to link the metabolic hormones in abdominal obesity, with reproductive axis hormones in women at age.Patients and methods: 85 no menopausal women aged between 17 and 52 were recruited: 62 with abdominal obesity (BMI >30 kg/m2 and waist circu...

Thyroid hormones disturbances may lead to glucose metabolism abnormalities but little is known about the risk of hyperglycaemia in hypothyroidism.The aim of our study is to determine the frequency and the predisposing factors to hyperglycaemia in hypothyroidism.Subjects and methods: It is a retro and prospective study including 425 hypothyroid subjects (383 F/42 M). We search for hyperglycaemia which means fasting glycaemia ≥...