Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It was shown that a relationship between uric acid and cardiovascular diseases, and hyperuricemia is associated with systemic inflammation. But, determination of uric acid is widely available and inexpensive, it has been overlooked as a marker of systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbances. In this study, we aimed to evaluate uric acid value and its association with inflammation and metabolic disturbances in overweight and obese Turkish women.<p class="a...

Aim: Increased levels of fasting parathyroid hormone(PTH) have been hypothesized to influence increased levels of body fat mass. Preliminary studies show that serum PTH levels are higher in obese than in non-obese young adults and decline with weight loss. In the present study, it was aimed to evaluate relationship between antropometric and metabolic risk parameters and PTH levels in Turkish women.Materials and methods: Analyses were performed on 710 Tur...

Aim: Serum calcium levels have a relation glucose homeostasis and weight management, and controversies in findings. This study carried out relationship between serum calcium levels and various metabolic parameters in obese Turkish Women.Materials and methods: Subjects for this study were 3544 overweight or obese Turkish women with mean level of serum calcium 9.4 md/dl. According to mean calcium level, they divided group I having >9.4 mg/dl and group ...

Introduction: Age at menarche reflects various health aspects including the timing of sexual maturation, growth and nutritional status, and enviromental conditions. This study carried out assesment obesity risk and the relationship between obesity, metabolic parameters and age at menarche in a series of Turkish women.Materials and methods: In a survey of obesity outpatient clinic, 4212 women who have mean age 38.5±12.1 years and ages at menarche bet...

Introduction: Serum ferritin concentration was found to be related with dyslipidemia, hypertension and abdominal adiposity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlations between serum ferritin concentrations and metabolic risk markers in obesity.Methods: Obese 534 women were enrolled into the study. The patients were divided into three tertiles according to the serum ferritin concentrations. The mean serum ferritin concentration was 9.96±4.1...

Introduction: The body fat distribution chances with menopause in women. The gluteo-femoral fat dominancy alters with central adiposity via menopause. The incidence of cardiovascular atherosclerosis increases with this period. Altered lipid profile and the increment in abdominal adipose tissue are suggested to be the influencing factors of this situation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the metabolic and anthropometric features of premenopausal and postmenopausal obese w...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which causes acute and chronic complications including insulin deficiency and ineffectiveness or both its incidence is increasing every day. Urinary tract infections are more frequently seen and can lead a more aggressive course in diabetic patients when compared with the population in general. The aim of this study is to determine antibacterial susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from diabetic and non-diab...

Background: One of the rarely documented endocrine disorders in African setting is pseudo-haemaphroditism. Female pseudo-haemaphroditism (virilized female) is characterized by the presence of 46XX karyotype, ovaries, normal mullerian duct structures, absent wolffian duct structures and virilised genitalia due to androgens in-utero. The commonest cause is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Aim: To highlight the challenge in investig...

Background: One of the rarely documented endocrine disorders in African setting is pseudo-haemaphroditism. Female pseudo-haemaphroditism (virilized female) is characterized by the presence of 46XX karyotype, ovaries, normal mullerian duct structures, absent wolffian duct structures and virilised genitalia due to androgens in-utero. The commonest cause is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Aim: To highlight the challenge in investig...

Introduction: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is a subtype of thyroid carcinomas with an aggressive form. Anaplastic thyroid carcinomas are thought to develop as a result of differentiation of well-differentiated thyroid cancers. Anaplastic transformation of well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma is very rare and most commonly occurs in thyroid gland and regional lymph nodes, whereas occurrence at distant metastatic site is extremely rare. Here we report the case of a pa...