Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: A growing body of evidence supports the possible association between the severity of climacteric symptoms and long-term cardiometabolic risk. We aimed to assess the possible link between the severity of hot flashes and the risk for cardiometabolic manifestations after the menopausal transition.Methods: This cohort study was conducted in the Menopause Clinic, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aretaieio Hospital, Athens, Greece....

Background: Both surgical and spontaneous menopause are associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Recent evidence reported that clusters of menopausal symptoms are associated with accumulation of cardiometabolic risk factors. Climacteric symptoms are also known to be affected by lifestyle parameters, ethnicity, the geographical location as well as by the overall health status at the time of the menopausal transition.Aim: This study aim...

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...