Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is metabolic disorder of the liver that is associated with type 2 diabetes.The relationship between NAFLD and diabetic neuropathy was still poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate whether the NAFLD is associated with the autonomic neuropathy parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes.Methods: A total of 174 patients with type 2 diabetes were included in this study. Patients were divided in...

Obesity is one of the leading causes of elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and morbidity. Several indicators of abdominal obesity such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are available. BMI and WC have limitations in stratifying cardio-metabolic risks. Another obesity measure, A Body Shape Index (ABSI), has been introduced but its applicability remains limited. To address this, the z-score of the log-transformed ABSI (LBSIZ) was recently develope...

Developmental toxicity tests have been made by embryonic stem cell tests at the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods or by embryonic body test in our laboratory. However, no neuronal-specific developmental toxicity test has been made yet. Therefore, this study was carried out using a 46C cell line, mouse embryonic stem cells with an endogenous Sox1-GFP reporter, to exploit the developmental neurotoxicity test. The expression of Sox1, a marker for neural pr...

Mitochondria, which are essential organelles for endocrine health, plays an important role in various physiological functions including hormonal biosynthesis, cell metabolism, proliferation and differentiation. Thus, mitochondrial toxicity can affect a variety of organs, such as liver, heart, muscle, kidney, and central nervous system. Mitochondrial toxicity is recognized as a contributor to drug-induced toxicity of various drugs such as hydroxytamoxifen, valproic acid, acetam...

Purpose: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has a strong propensity for lymph node metastasis, which is related with local recurrence, and disease-specific survival in the elderly. We evaluated the association between lymph node metastasis and disease multifocality, bilaterality, and other clinicopathological variables to identify risk factors and aid surgical decision-making. The relationship between the number of foci and metastasis to cervical lymph node was also evaluated....

Post-thyroidectomy syndrome is defined as postoperative problems after thyroidectomy without injury of recurrent laryngeal nerve, and including most common symptom such as vocal fatigue, loss of high-pitch, reduced vocal strength, reduced speaking fundamental frequency also can be presented. In a recent systemic review, F0, shimmer, and MPT was significantly deteriorated only in the early period and not in the late period after thyroidectomy. There have been several questionna...

Introduction: The prevalence of B-type Raf kinase (BRAFV600E) mutation in PTC has been observed in 30% to over 80%, and it seems that the mutation occurred in the early stage of thyroid carcinoma progression which precedes histological change. Based on previous reports, high body mass index (BMI) is considered a thyroid cancer risk. However, it is unclear whether high BMI has a certain association with the BRAFV600E mutational status. We assess whether high BMI is associated w...

Background: We evaluated the impact of the multifocality on post-lobectomy recurrence in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).Methods: We analyzed 1,684 patients with DTC who underwent thyroid lobectomy from 2008 to 2015 using logistic regression models to calculate the relative risk on post-lobectomy recurrence.Results: Tumor diameter increased from 4.9 mm to 8.1 mm and the proportion of extrathyroidal extension (ETE)...

Introduction: Graves’ disease (GD), although the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, is relatively uncommon in children, usually manifesting insidiously. Thyroid storm is a well described but rarely seen phenomenon in childhood GD; thyrotoxic crisis is less often discussed and its management can be challenging. We describe a case of GD with thyrotoxic crisis.Case: A 14-year-old female, known to have inadequately c...

Objectives: Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy has potential therapeutic effects in treating Graves’ disease (GD). However, whether RAI therapy for GD can increase cancer risk remains a controversial issue in medicine and public health.Methods: Using the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Health Information Database (NHIS-NHID, 2002–2020), we investigated hazard ratios (HRs) of overall and site-specific cancer associated with RAI i...