Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: We aimed to investigate the conjunctival surface changes in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) patients and controls comparatively, and search the correlation of these changes with thyroid functions and thyroid autoantibody level in patients without thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO).Methods: A total of 25 patients with HT and 33 healthy individuals were enrolled in the study. Serum TSH, fT4 and fT3 level, and anti...

Introduction: This study was designed to determine whether obesity causes inflammation on both conjunctival epithelium cells as well as on squamous metaplasia.Materials and methods: Around 61 volunteer participants who had no previous history of illness or drug use were involved in this study. Of them, nearly 20 were obese, and 41 were of normal weight. We measured the glucose and insulin values for all volunteers. We also measured the Body Mass Index (B...