Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To investigate a possible association of DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1 alleles with the chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) development in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1) manifested between 18 to 40 years of age. Patients and methods: In 118 patients with DM1 (age at DM1 diagnosis 28.0 (6.9) years, duration of DM1 14.0 (6.3) years) HLA-DRB1, -DQA1 and -DQB1 alleles were analysed by sequence specific oligonucleotide probes and sequence specific primers. AT was pre...

The influence of the hypothyroidism (H) on the glucose metabolism (GM) has not been studied by modern methods till now. We described the changes in the effect of insulin on GM in patients in artificial H and after the thyroid hormone therapy (T).Materials and Methods: We have investigated 15 female patients (age 32.8 plus/minus 8.1 years) in H (ssTSH 84.45 plus/minus 19.69 milli international units per litre; fT4 1.68 plus/minus 0.77 picomoles per litre;...