Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Our aim is to investigate whether ovarian reserve is decreased in patients with euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT).Method: Our study included 110 euthyroid HT patients and 72 age matched healthy women (controls; C). In all patients FSH, LH E2, and P levels were measured from blood samples, and ovarian volumes (OV) and antral follicule count (AFC) were measured using ultrasonography at 3rd day of menstruation....

Metabolic disorders and cardiovascular events are increased in hypogonadism. Serum HDL composition is a better cardiovascular predictor than the HDL counts. However, there is no information about the HDL subfractions in patients with hypogonadism. We designed a prospective study to investigate the HDL subfractions in treatment naïve subjects with hypogonadism and the effects of two different testosterone replacement regimens on the HDL subfractions. Seventy young male pat...

The enzyme chitotriosidase (ChT) is secreted by activated macrophages and play active role in human immune response. ChT activity is increased in atherosclerosis in association to the extent of the disease. We investigated the relevance of ChT to endothelial functions and insulin resistance in patients with T2DM.Forty newly diagnosed and untreated patients with T2DM (male 17; age: 47.0±6.2 years) and 50 healthy volunteers (male 21; age: 50.2±8....