Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate associations between adiposity trajectories over time and insulin sensitivity and glucose deterioration in a Chinese twin cohort.Research Design and Methods: This study focused on 341 males and 292 females who aged 20–50 years old at baseline and had physical, clinical examinations and oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT) at two time points with an average of 6 years apart. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), percent...

For patients with Graves’ disease (GD), the primary goal of antithyroid drug therapy is to temporarily restore the patient to the euthyroid state and wait for a subsequent remission of the disease. This study sought to identify the predictive markers for the relapse of disease.To do this, we studied 262 GD patients with long enough follow-up after drug withdrawal to determine treatment outcome. The patients were divided into three groups by time of ...