Endocrine Abstracts

The influence of the hypothyroidism (H) on the glucose metabolism (GM) has not been studied by modern methods till now. We described the changes in the effect of insulin on GM in patients in artificial H and after the thyroid hormone therapy (T).Materials and Methods: We have investigated 15 female patients (age 32.8 plus/minus 8.1 years) in H (ssTSH 84.45 plus/minus 19.69 milli international units per litre; fT4 1.68 plus/minus 0.77 picomoles per litre;...