Endocrine Abstracts

The identification of type 2 diabetes patients at particularly high risk for cardiovascular events might be facilitated by the use of specific risk calculators or by measurements of serum biomarkers.Objectives: To correlate the levels of cardiovascular biomarkers – assymetric dymethylarginine (ADMA), endothelin 1 (ET-1), N-terminal brain natriuretic pro-peptide (NT-proBNP) and placental growth factor (PIGF-1), with calculated cardiovascular risks us...

Aims: To explore the correlations of BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist–to–height ratio (WHtR), waist–to–hip ratio (WHR) and body composition with levels of assymetric dymethylarginine (ADMA), endothelin 1(ET–1), N–terminal brain natriuretic pro–peptide (NT–proBNP), uric acid and calculated cardiovascular risks.Methods: 102 women and 67 men with type 2 diabetes on oral antidiabetic drugs participated. Ser...