Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been associated with abnormalities of cardiac function and left ventricular hypertrophy. Diabetic individuals, particularly women, had higher heart rates, greater left ventricular wall thicknesses, greater cardiac mass than unaffected subjects. We aimed to investigate association between waist circumference–body mass index (BMI) and left ventricle mass (LVM)-left ventricle mass index (LVMI), left ventricle myocardial perfusion inde...

Background: Thyroid diseases are commonly encountered in the population though it is unanswered for whom screening tests are useful. We aimed to see the value of TSH screening and to find out comorbidities of any thyroid diseases among these patients who were diagnosed by screening.Method: All consecutive patients (n: 796) who admitted to outpatient Clinics of Internal Medicine, between 1 and 31 January 2007 were recruited in the study. Age, gende...