Endocrine Abstracts

Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the world with iodine deficiency and its incidence is 0.3–1.5 per 1,000. The aim of this study is to retrospectively evaluate the demographic characteristics, clinical and laboratory findings of the patients with HT who applied to our endocrinology outpatient clinic. The findings were compared with the control group who had hypothyroidism with negative thyroid autoantibodies. For this purpose, a tota...

Introduction: A significance of chronic hyperglycaemia related to the rising intraocular pressure are discussed in the previous studies. The purpose of the present study was to investigate changes of intraocular pressure induced by acute changes of glucose levels during oral glucose tolerance test in non-diabetic subjects.Methods: Fifty-one individuals who were needed to be screened for diabetes, were scheduled for oral glucose tolerance test according t...