Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulin resistance occurs in 80% of patients with acromegaly. This report illustrates the case of a female patient with unsatisfactory control of type 2 diabetes and a beneficial effect on glycaemic control after the somatotropic pituitary adenoma surgery.Case report: A 76-year-old female patient with diabetes diagnosed more than twenty years ago was treated with oral hypoglycaemic agents for a long time. In the past ten years she has been ...

Metabolic syndrome is risk factor for cardiovascular event. According recommendation of NCEP ATP III, the major component of metabolic syndrome is waist circumference up to 94 cm in male and 80 cm in female, and two of following disturbances: fasting glucose up to 5.6 mmol/l, HDL below 0.9 in male and 1.3 in female, triglycerides up to 1.7 mmol/l and BP up to 135/80 mmHg.We have analyzed the influence of low calorie diet (1200–1500 kcal/day) with in...

BMI over 30 kg/m2 is associated with lowest risk for osteoporosis and hip fracture in both sex. Increased body fat mass is followed with greater hip fracture risk, independently of BMI.Aim: Evaluate risk for osteoporosis in postmenopausal female with BMI 25–29.9 kg/m2 and influence of body fat mass on mineral bone density in overweight women.Material and methods: One hundred postmenopausal female, age 48&...