Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionMenopausal transition is associated with an increase in the cardiovascular risk, possibly related with the sharp decrease of estrogen levels. Menopausal symptoms and more specifically hot flushes have been previously linked with an increase in cardiovascular risk. On the other hand, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is considered as another presentation of the metabolic syndrome, conferring additional cardiovascular risk to the affected indiv...

IntroductionMenopausal transition has been associated with an increase in cardiovascular risk, which is possibly linked with the hormonal imbalance following ovarian senescence. Both insulin levels and circulating androgens (FAI) have been associated with endothelial dysfunction, through studies evaluating flow mediated dilation (FMD). We aimed to investigate whether the link between these hormones and FMD might be explained by markers of oxidative stres...

Background: Apart from traditional cardiovascular-risk factors and fluctuating sex hormone levels, environmental and lifestyle factors might also contribute to the heightened cardiovascular risk after menopause.Objective: To explore whether nutritional factors are associated with subclinical vessel disease in postmenopausal women.Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 310 apparently healthy postmenopausal women, attending a ...

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the results of different perinatal nutritional patterns on skeletal development and insulin regulation of one-year-old Wistar rats.Methods: Three different diet regiments [Control Diet, (CD), food-restricted (FR), or fat-fed (FF)] were randomly provided to sixty-seven primigravid rats from the 12th till the 21st gestational date when they gave birth and throughout the 25-day lactation period. According to...