Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The beneficial effects of vitamin D against gastrointestinal polyps and cancer in the gastrointestinal system as a whole remain unknown and relevance in repeat populations remain contraversial. Also in most studies the role of accompanying hypocalcemia itself is often neglected. For this reason we included only patients with low vitamin D levels and investigated the presence of gastric and colonic polyps.Methods/design: Between March 2011 a...

Background/aim: Visceral obesity rather than generalized obesity has been recognized as a risk factor for development of colonic adenomatous polyps. We aimed to to find out whether there is association between the obesity parameters determined by TANITA such as fat percent, body mass index (BMI) and visceral fat rating and prevalence of colonic adenomatous polyps.Material and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a consecutive series of 231...