Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most serious chronic complications of diabetes mellitus characterized by persistent albuminuria, raised arterial blood pressure, a lowered glomerular filtration rate, and high-risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The vascular genes (Angiotensin-converting enzyme) ACE, and (aldosterone synthase) CYP11B2 are involved in alterations in vascular endothelium, and are suggested to play a role in the susceptibi...

Aim: To single out polineuropathy development risk group.Materials and methods: Four hundred and fifty patients with a more than 5 years diabetes experience were examined.For verification of a diabetic polyneuropathy the electroneuromyography was made. By a method of the immunofermental analysis neurospecific S100 protein level was defined. Data are presented in Me (Q25; Q75) format. The importance of distinctions was estimated by ...