Endocrine Abstracts

Goal: To study Prevalence of Preterm menopause and its relation to obesity; to study relation of DM and the age of the first menorrhoea among women over 40 years old.Materials and methods: The study was performed on 640 menopause women (with no menorrhoea during the past 12 months) who participated in ‘sugar and lipid’ study of Tehran during 2006 to 2008. With no history of hysterectomy. Preterm menopause was defined as menopause before 48 year...

Goal: To study the relation between the obesity of children and their parents, and energy intake.Materials and methods: Of 236 households containing 828 population (356 children age 5–25 years, and the rest their parents) were selected from the subjects of ‘Tehran Lipid and Glucose study’ (2006–2008) for this study. Food intake of the subjects was studied using FFQ. In this study, energy intake ≥75 percentile was regarded as &#1...

Introduction: Obesity and its related diseases like high blood pressure are the main reason of coronary heart diseases that are the second main cause of mortality in I.R of IRAN. The significant rise of obesity in the last decade resulted in corresponding increase in the prevalence of hypertension.Objective: To detect obesity and hypertension, and the relationship between them among Semnanian people, Iran, 2007Methods: In this cros...