Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sexual dysfunction could be under the influence of menopause and the changes it causes in hormone levels. The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between serum levels of androgens and sexual function in post-menopausal women.Methods: This is a community-based, descriptive-analytical study involving 405 post-menopausal women, aged 40–65 years, who had reached menopause up to 3 years prior to the study. A multi-stage, ran...

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most acceptable chronic diseases. However, diabetes-related stigma is proposed as an important and striking phenomenon in many countries especially in Asian countries such as Iran. This study aimed to explore the responses of Iranian young people with type 1 diabetes to the diabetes-related stigma.Methods: Conventional qualitative content analysis approach guided this inquiry. Volunteered people with type 1 diabetes w...

Nutritional education and improvement of nutritional knowledge is an effective intervention that improves School children health. With consideration to few accurate and successful nutritional teaching programs directed at our schoolchildren in this research we evaluated the status of nutrition education system in primary school children and mothers’ point of view. The study was a qualitative study as a Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The research team consisted of a coordin...

Background: In 2016, a prospective study conducted by our team found a prevalence of 7.7% of pheochromocytomas (Pheo) in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) if systematic screening including free metanephrines measurement (DMX) and abdominal imaging was performed. Half of Pheo were secreting, with 16% being symptomatic. This suggested the benefit of a systematic screening by abdominal imaging and DMX assay. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of sys...

Osteopontin (OPN) is a multifunctional glycoprotein implicated, among others, in bone metabolism, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. It promotes inflammation and insulin resistance. Osteopontin is elevated in the plasma and adipose tissue of obese subjects and decreases upon diet induced weight loss. Here we investigated the effect of bariatric surgery on plasma OPN concentrations in morbidly obese patients. 40 obese patients aged 43.1±1.8 years were recruited ...

Recent case reports describe hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia after gastric bypass. The aim of this study was the assessment of insulin resistance and insulin secretion in non-diabetic morbidly obese patients before and six months after bariatric surgery.In 8 non-diabetic morbidly obese patients (OB:6f/2 m, age:42±3a, BMI:47.29±2.2 kg/m2) and 6 controls (CON:4f/2 m, age:43±0a, BMI:23.8±0.5 kg/m2) we performed a freq...

Background: One of important issues which should be taught by the multidisciplinary health care team in diabetes is related to the diabetic foot prevention and care. In this regard, nurses as one of team members are able to provide specific services to the patient including patient education and DF care. The aim of this study was to explore impact of work with “real patient” as a teaching strategy for nurses in the workshop.Methods: Two days di...

Background: Despite long standing iodine supplementation in Iran the prevalence of goiter remains high in some areas. This may suggest that factors other than iodine deficiency may play a role. In the present we investigated the possible role of thiocyanate (SCN) in the etiology of goiter in Semirom, Iran.Methods: One thousand and eight hundred and twenty-eight schoolchildren (7–13 year-old) were selected by multi stage random sampling. Thyroid size...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder affecting 7–18% of women of reproductive age, according to different criteria. Metabolic disturbances related to PCOS include dyslipidemia, obesity, and insulin resistance (IR) and women with PCOS have higher prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes mellitus in comparison with weight-matched women without the syndrome. Evidence indicates that regular practice of physical activity improves ...

Endocr Relat Cancer August 1, 2015 22 481–504. DOI: 10.1530/ERC-14-0546...