Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sexual dysfunction could be under the influence of menopause and the changes it causes in hormone levels. The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between serum levels of androgens and sexual function in post-menopausal women.Methods: This is a community-based, descriptive-analytical study involving 405 post-menopausal women, aged 40–65 years, who had reached menopause up to 3 years prior to the study. A multi-stage, ran...

Introduction: The prevalence of these disorders in pregnant women is relatively high and may affect mother and foetus adversely if they are not evaluated and treated appropriately. Therefore, their diagnosis and treatment is very important. On the other signs and symptoms of thyroid disease can often be masked by the physiologic changes of pregnancy and are not found. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physiological symptoms similar to thyroid disorders and their incide...

Background: Recently many cross-sectional and a few longitudinal studies reported that thyroid hormones even within normal ranges are associated with measures of adiposity. We aim to assess if changes in TSH and Free T4 (FT4) over 10 years of follow-up would be associated with changes in BMI and waist circumference or risk of general and abdominal obesity.Methods: 4179 participants of Tehran Thyroid Study(TTS) who had attended at baseline(1999–2001...

Background: To determine the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in an Iranian population according to glucose tolerance status.Methods and results: The study population consisted of 1752 men and 2273 women aged ≥40 years without CVD. After a median follow up of 7.6 years, 340 CVD events occurred (197 in men and 143 in women). Women generally had more Framingham risk score (FRS) than men (12.7 vs 11.9, P<0.001) and there was no differen...

Objective: To determine the association between markers of hepatic injury and serum, urinary, and intra-erythrocyte magnesium concentrations and dietary magnesium intake in obese children.Methods: In a case–control cross-sectional study, we studied 42 obese children and adolescents and 42 sex- and puberty-matched lean controls. Serum, urinary, and intra-erythrocyte magnesium levels, indexes of insulin sensitivity, and liver enzymes were measured. Di...