Endocrine Abstracts

Breast cancer is the most common oncology-related cause of death in women worldwide. The use of progestins in combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been implicated in increasing the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Since various progestins are available for clinical use, all differentiated by structure, it is possible that not all progestins would lead to increased breast cancer risk. Progestins are synthetic ligands of the progesterone recept...

A 6-hour octreotide suppression test (OST) is useful in the selection of patients with acromegaly for chronic somatostatin depot analogues treatment. However, it is time consuming and that brings inconvenience to patients. We aim to simplify the blood sampling of OST, and determine the reliability of a short version of the classic 6-hour OST. The data provided in the supplementary tables of the primary manuscript were used to re-analyze the efficacies of the simplified OST tes...

Objective: The distinction between constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) and congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) in males with delayed puberty is difficult but important for timely treatment. We aimed to summarize the sensitivity and specificity of serum inhibin B (INHB) level in distinguishing CHH with CDGPin boys.Methods: Studies in the PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched from the date of da...

Introduction: EPODE is a coordinated, capacity-building approach for communities to implement effective and sustainable strategies to prevent childhood obesity.Methods: At central level, a coordination team using social marketing and organizational techniques trains and coaches a local project manager nominated in each EPODE town by the local authorities. The local project manager is also provided with tools to mobilize local stakeholders through a local...

Introduction: EPODE is a coordinated, capacity-building methodology for communities to implement effective and sustainable strategies to prevent childhood obesity. Since 2008, the EPODE European Network (EEN), supported by the European Commission (DG SANCO), is aimed at facilitating the implementation of interventions using the EPODE methodology in other regions and countries.Methodology: From 2008 to 2011, four committees – gathering universities a...

Telmisartan, an angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARB), is widely prescribed for the treatment of hypertensive patients with simultaneous diabetes mellitus (DM). Unlike other ARBs, telmisartan is reported to have various ancillary effects as well as common blood pressure-lowering effect. In this regard, telmisartan improves endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular complications in DM patients and is recently reported to reduce new-onset DM incidence. However, effects a...

Background: The aim of our study was to asses changes in the cross sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve by ultrasound in newly diagnosed acromegalic patients 1 year after treatment of acromegaly (transsphenoidal surgery, somatostatine analogues).Patients and methods: The study included 30 newly diagnosed acromegalic patients (18 females and 12 males) and 30 healthy controls (18 females and 12 males) matched for age, gender and body mass index. Clinic...

In recent years, there has been increasing evidence for the hypothesis of bones as endocrine organs. Osteocalcin, long considered just a marker of new bone formation, is now seen as the first hormone produced by bones, and seems to be associated with regulating glucose metabolism and reproduction. The aim of this work was to monitor changes of osteocalcin in reaction to hypoglycaemia, and determine if there are differences in such reactions between the sexes. The study include...

Background: Medullary and papillary thyroid carcinomas are distinct entities, regarding their incidence, cellular and genetic origin, histopathological features and prognosis, but there have been described a few cases of the two occurring simultaneously in the same patient. Medullary thyroid carcinoma represents between 1–5% of all thyroid malignancies and it is responsible for 12–13% of all cancer related deaths. The familial form (10–20% of the cases) is cause...

Previously, we reported that aphidicolin acutely increases nitric oxide (NO) production in bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) by increasing phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase at serine 1179 (p-eNOS-Ser1179) and decreasing phosphorylation at serine 116 (p-eNOS-Ser116) without altering eNOS protein expression. Here, we demonstrate that prolonged treatment with aphidicolin (over 24 h) also increased NO production in BAECs. Unlike the a...