Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It’s assumed that music has health beneficial effects by its potential stres-reducing life. There are some reports that chorists in choral soceity are influenced by music positively during their activities.Research design and methods: 37 healthy volunteers who perform Turkish art music in Bahcesehir Music Society with mean age 50.3±10.3yrs, were included into this study. The state and trait anxiety status of chorists was evaluated...

Background and aims: The history of GDM predisposes to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the future. The aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors predicting the development of glucose intolerance and insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) in women with history of GDM in the future.Materials and methods: 55 women who had GDM 11±2 years before were enrolled into the study. After clinical examination 75 g OGTT and inflammatory markers(hsCRP, uric acid, ...

Introduction: Gestational diabetes (GDM) has an important short and long-term health consequences for both the mother and her offspring. The aim of this study was to evaluate current metabolic status of women with GDM history and their offspring approximately at 10th year after delivery.Methods: 24 mothers who had GDM 10 years before (mean age 41.08±4.13 years and BMI 30.3±5.9) and their children (11 females, 13 males; mean age of 11.0±1.9...