Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Previous data shows that weight reduction decreases serum retinol binding protein-4 (RBP4) level. But it is not yet clear whether decreases in body weight resulted from exercise, will be accompanied by the changes of RBP4 protein expression in liver and adipose tissues in type 2 diabetes. Thus we designed this study to evaluate the ability of 7 weeks exercise to reverse the changes in body weight, insulin resistance (IR), serum RBP4 and its expression in liver an...

Introduction: We designed this study, to investigate the effect of a single resistance exercise session on serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and cardiometabolic riskfactors in trained and untrained young healthy male students and to evaluate whether regular training may affect the response of these markers to exercise.Method: According to training status 34 healthy male students divided to 19 trained and 15 untrained groups. Each group was then randomly div...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the cardiovascular risk factors which could predict vascular thickness in diabetic patients who did not have clinical symptom of atherosclerotic vascular diseaseMethod: A total of 101 type 2 diabetic patients (48 males and 53 females) with a mean age of (53.6±8.4 years) were recruited in this study. CIMT were measured by B-mode ultrasonography and ankle brachial pressure index (ABI) was measured...

Introduction: FNA (fine needle aspiration) is a highly sensitive and specific procedure in evaluating of thyroid nodules. There are several options for processing the FNA specimen such as direct smears, cell block preparations (CBP) and liquid base preparations (LBP); the latter has become more popular due to its easy transport, fast protocol and also the possibility to study different parts of the specimen. In this study, we compare the results of cell block and liquid base p...

Objective: To evaluate the relation between C-peptide and insulin in amniotic fluid with macrosomia.Methods and materials: We enrolled ten newborns with more than 4000 gr weight as the case-group and 28 newborns with less than 4000 gr as the control group. During delivery (C/S or NVD) about 10cc of amniotic fluid was taken and we took samples from umbilical cord or venous blood of newborn and venous blood of mothers for evaluation of insulin and C-peptid...

Introduction: High waist circumference and triglyceride (TG) disturbances are two important and diagnostic components constituting the metabolic syndrome. This study was designed to investigate whether herbal medicine, Anethum graveolens (dill) extract, is capable to improve abdominal obesity presented by high waist circumference and triglyceride in patients with metabolic syndrome.Design: A total of 24 mens and womens who met the criteria of metabolic s...

Objective: Fetal hyperinsulinemia correlated with large birth weight and impaired glucose tolerance test and obesity in second decades of life. In study we compared the correlation between Fetal Insulin production (as estimated by amniotic fluid (AF) C-peptide concentration) and AF Insulin with macrosomia (as estimated by neonatal birth weight >4000 gr).Methods: Thirty eight neonates was studied: Ten infants were macrosomia and twenty eight was norma...

Objective: Pendred syndrome, defined as the constellation of goiter, sensori-neural hearing loss and positive Perchlorate discharge test, is the most frequent cause of congenital deafness. Newly introduced diagnostic approaches to the disease are rather expensive and complicated, we evaluated the value of MRI as the sole, or adjunctive diagnostic approach, and compared it with the traditional ones.Methods: Presuming the classic triad as the gold standard...