Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes appears to involve interaction between susceptible genetic backgrounds and environmental factors. It is important to identify modifiable risk factors that may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Data on salt intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes are limited. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between adding salt to prepared meal and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.Methods: A case–control stud...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes appears to involve interaction between susceptible genetic backgrounds and environmental factors. It’s important to identify modifiable risk factors for type 2 diabetes, which may help reduce the risk of the disease. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between smoking and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women.Methods: In case–control study included 168 cases with a newly confirmed diagnosis of type 2...

Objective: To document the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in Lithuanian 15–39 years of age population from 1991 to 2012.Research design and methods: A specifically developed contact system with all endocrinologists and diabetologists and general practitioners involved in the diabetes care covering 100% of the Lithuanian population aged 15–39, was the initial data source. Annual reports from regional family physicians, endocrinologist&#14...

Recently we described clinical case of 38-year-old fertile woman with sudden onset of a multiple clinical symptoms: weight gain, secondary amenorrhea, hirsutism and seizures. Adrenal tumour co-secreted high amounts of DHEA sulfate, testosterone (T) and aldosterone (A) (Matulevicius et al. 2014). The symptoms of the disease disappeared after laparoscopic removal of adrenal tumour, which proved to be an adrenocortical oncocytoma. A hypersecretion of A remained after res...

Adrenal incidentaloma is adrenal tumor incidentally discovered in the region of adrenals, usually investigating for non-endocrine disease.We attempted to find out the current situation of adrenal incidentaloma in Lithuania.The object of research – patients who visited the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinic's Clinic of Endocrinology and Vilnius Endocrinology Center for suspected adrenal pathology in 2007–2011. The total numb...

Sexual dysfunction of type 1 diabetic (T1D) men is an area that has been rarely investigated until now. Investigation of reproductive health of young men was performed in Nordic and Baltic countries in 2003/2004 (‘The Reproductive function of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian young men’ (ELLY)) but analysis of sexual function was out of the target of the study. In this study we invited those presumably healthy men to participate as controls for investigation of T1D me...