Endocrine Abstracts

Background and objectives: Our objective in this study was to discover the relationship of irisin hormone, which acts on adipose tissue and the metabolism as thyroid hormones, with the thyroid functions and the obesity secondary to thyroid disease.Methods: A total of 74 patients were included in the study, of the patients, 37 were newly diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis dependent hypothyroidism but not received a treatment yet, and the remainin...

Background: The relationship between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and oxidative stress (OS) has been investigated in several studies that have included a limited number of patients, the findings have not been conclusive, which indicates that additional research that investigates parameters of OS in larger patient populations is needed. As such, this dissertation study aimed to determine the levels of parameters of OS and their relationship with thyroid antibodies in HT pa...