Endocrine Abstracts

Vitamin A (retinol) plays a non-substitutable role in a process of growth and differentiation of tissues. Deficit of retinol can be encountered at its long-term diet deprivation (primary deficit), but it can occur also as a consequence of metabolism disorders on various levels (secondary deficit). Secondary deficit of retinol can occur also in people exposed to chemical substances in the long term or people living in an environment polluted by chemicals for a long time. One of...

Objectives: Aim of the study was firstly to assess the prevalence of metabolic symptoms in patients with clinically silent and benign adrenal incidentalomas (AI) and secondly to determine the prevalence of C825T GNB3 gene polymorphism in AI as well as its relation to metabolic variables.Subject and methods: Group of patients consisted of 50 patients with AI of mean age 57.9±15 years and group of controls consisted of 22 subjects without AI and metab...