Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Diabetic retinopathy was one of the important complications of diabetes both in type 1 or type 2 and cause blindness. High lipid levels was accused of endotheial dysfunction and so play a role in retinal exudate formation in retinopathy. The aim of this study was to acess the association between serum lipid levels and diabetic retinopathy.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and R...

Objectives: Diabetic nephropathy is a common complication of diabetes. It can be a cause of abnormal lipoprotein metabolism and may be had an negative impact on metaboic control in diabetics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diabetic nephropathy on lipid profiles of adult type 1 diabetics.Methods: Our study was carried out retrospectively in Istanbul Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and Research Hospital between 2012 and 2013. The...

Introduction: Type two diabetes (T2DM), is the most common form of diabetes and known to be associated with low-grade inflammation. Since TLR-4 plays an important role in bacteriel recognition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and activation of proinflammatory pathways we aimed of to test whether TLR-4 gene polymorphism plays a protective role in the development of T2DM in a pilot Turkish population.Description of methods/design: Blood samples were collected f...