Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Abdominal obesity, which in fact is a metabolic syndrome (MS), is related to decreased testosterone, insulin resistance (IR), increased inflammatory factors, non-alcoholic fat liver disease (NAFLD) and risk of early atherosclerosis. Elevated inflammatory markers (CRP) may interfere with insulin signal transduction at the neuronal level inducing hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.Objective: To examine testosterone relationship with abdominal obesit...