Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Studies on thyroid hormones in obese adult patients are contradictory. Moreover, little is known about the effect of weight loss on thyroid functions. Thus, we aimed to investigate thyroid hormone status, and possible effect of weight loss on thyroid hormones in obese patients.Methods: We study population consisted of 39 (35 female, 4 male) euthyroid obese patients with mean age 42.76±10.52 years. Of these 19 patients were morbid obese. ...

Objective: Accumulating data suggests that post-prandial hypertriglyceridemia is important in the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis, and thus cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to assess the acute effect of the orlistat vs placebo on post-prandial triglyceride (TG) level in diabetic and non-diabetic obese patients.Research Design and Methods: Study population consisted of 49 patients with obesity (25 non-diabetics, 24 diabetic). Patients wer...