Endocrine Abstracts

The conducted national screening of Bulgarian pregnant women showed a frequency of Hyperglycemia among them of 14.4%. It is known that a number of factors have a significant impact on this disorder. The aim: to assess risk factors for the development of Hyperglycemia in pregnant women in Bulgaria.Material: We screened 547 pregnant women, mean age 30.49±5.12 years, divided into two groups: up to 24 gestational week –g.w. (n-386, 70.6%) and after 2...

In 2005, the evaluation of an international expert group* placed Bulgaria among those who successfully overcame the problem of ‘iodine deficiency’. The aim of the study is to assess the current iodine status in pregnant women in two main regions of Bulgaria - with a known iodine deficiency and other with sufficiency in the past.Material: A cross-sectional multicenter population-based study was conducted in a total of 84 settlements from the two...

Bulgaria is also among the countries with national data on the prevalence of Diabetes published in the Diabetes Atlas of the International Diabetes Federation’2019, but did not provide data on the incidence of Hyperglycemia in pregnant Bulgarian women.Purpose: The Bulgarian Society of Endocrinology organized and conducted screening for Hyperglycemia in pregnant women in 2019.Material and Methods: 547 pregnant women from 10 re...

In Bulgaria there are epidemiological data for the population of 20–80 years for the frequency of thyroid dysfunction – 6.3% hypothyroidism and 3.7% hyperthyroidism (Bulgarian Society of Endocrinology, 2012). So far, there is no national data on the incidence of thyroid disorders in pregnant women, which is a major lack of the health care system and the purpose of this study is to fill this gap.Material and Methods: We studied 547 pregnant Bu...

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate sE-selectin and Endothelin-1 as markers of endothelial function and autonomic tone at early stages of impaired glucose tolerance and in metabolic syndrome (MetS).Material and methods: A total of 87 subjects - 48 females and 39 males (mean age 45.7±11.6 years, mean BMI 31.4±6.6 kg/m2), divided into three groups according to glucose tolerance: 35 with normal glucose tolerance (NGT), 35 with pre...

The nodular goiter is the most prevalent thyroid disorder. Its prevalence increases with age and reaches over 70%. The aim of the study was to compare the nodule prevalence in two population-based studies, carried in Bulgaria in 2006 and 2012.Material and methods: Two thousand four hundred and two subjects (1347 female and 1053 male, age range 20–94 years) were included in 2006 and 2022 (1073 female and 949 male, 20–88 years) in 2012. All subje...

According to the FIGO (2015) and later WHO (2019) classifications, hyperglycaemia detected for the first time during pregnancy may be associated with Diabetes In Pregnancy (DIP) or Gestational Diabetes mellitus (GDM).AimTo specify the frequency and type of newly diagnosed diabetes during pregnancy in the Bulgarian population of women.MaterialWe studied 547 pregnant women with a mean age...