Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Despite available evidence for a relationship between bone health and obesity, the results of clinical trials remain conflicting. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study to analyze possible associations between waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and body weight (BW) with bone health in postmenopausal women.Materials and Methods: The study included 84 women from Northeastern Bulgaria. Their mean age was 60.54±7.07 years,...

Aim: The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the lipid disturbances in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis.Methods: 1380 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, hospitalized in Endocrinology department of ‘St. Marina’ Hospital, Varna for the period of 2004–2015 year, participated in the study. After excluding conditions influencing lipid profile, 771 patients remained for analysis (36 men and 735 women, mean age 49.81±13.98 ye...