Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Active metabolites of vitamin D have pleiotropic influence on whole body.Aim: The aim of the study was evaluation of the correlation between vitamin D3 and TSH values in population over 65.Materials and methods: 94 patients admitted to diagnosis on Geriatric Department entered the study. People with age above 65 were included to research and divided on two groups according to sex. The material samples were obtained fr...

Introduction: Anthropometric parameters such as: waist circumference, hips circumference, or arm circumference allow to find a correlation between the obesity and the risk of some metabolic disturbances (for example arm circumference index of upper part indicates the level of protein storage in the body).Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the correlation among the arm circumference index, concentration of 25-OH vitamin D3 and lipid profile parameter...