Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Magnesium (Mg) deficiency is a common problem in diabetic patients. Deficiency of Mg may increase the incidence of diabetes. Development of hypomagnesemia may affect glycaemic regulation and trigger complications of diabetes. The aim of our present study was to explore relationships between the serum Mg level and diabetes complications.Materials and methods: In this retrospective study, we evaluated 673 diabetic patients, of whom 57.8% were m...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is defined as high TSH accompanied with normal free thyroxine (FT4). SH has found to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and increased mortality. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is now considered to be a new noninvasive measurement method used for the early detection of CVD susceptibility. EAT has vasocrine and paracrine actions which lead to CVD. We aimed to evaluate measurement of EAT and to detect relationsh...