Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulin resistance occurs in 80% of patients with acromegaly. This report illustrates the case of a female patient with unsatisfactory control of type 2 diabetes and a beneficial effect on glycaemic control after the somatotropic pituitary adenoma surgery.Case report: A 76-year-old female patient with diabetes diagnosed more than twenty years ago was treated with oral hypoglycaemic agents for a long time. In the past ten years she has been ...

BMI over 30 kg/m2 is associated with lowest risk for osteoporosis and hip fracture in both sex. Increased body fat mass is followed with greater hip fracture risk, independently of BMI.Aim: Evaluate risk for osteoporosis in postmenopausal female with BMI 25–29.9 kg/m2 and influence of body fat mass on mineral bone density in overweight women.Material and methods: One hundred postmenopausal female, age 48&...