Endocrine Abstracts

Obesity is the modern medical problem. According to the WHO expert panel the prevalence of obese population worldwide is 300 million and overweight is 750 million.In the first trimester of 2007, we studied the obese patients in the Iv. Javakhishvili State Medical University’s Department of Endocrinology. The objective of our research was to study the course of subclinical hypothyroidism adjunct with severe obesity, its diagnostic criteria and treatm...

Background: The impact of hyperglycemia on atherogenesis is regulated through the increase of the oxidative stress, increase of the rest of the glycosylated products of metabolism and development of the endothelium dysfunction.Aim: To compare the biochemical indexes and investigate their relationship with the development of cardiovascular disease in obese patients with and without type 2 diabetes.Materials and methods: 21 patients ...