Endocrine Abstracts

Gender dysphoria (GD) is a condition in which a person experiences discongruency between their assigned sex and what they feel their genderidentity is. A person with gender dysphoria experiences persistently uncomfortable feelings about their birth gender (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition (DSM-V) (American Psychiatric Association).During the ‘real life experience’ hormonal treatment usually starts and applica...

Introduction: The objective of this Report is to evaluate for a possible association between serum uric acid levels and PAD in persons with diabetes mellitus.Methods: This was a cross sectional Study carried out in 232 DM patients, Anthropometric indices and ankle brachial pressure indices were documented. Biochemical analyses were carried out for lipid parameters, glycosylated haemoglobin and uric acid.Results: The mean age and ag...

Objective: There is currently extensive debate regarding elevated TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) concentrations and associated cardiovascular risk. This study investigated whether correlations exists between TSH concentrations within the accepted range of normality and increasing cardiovascular risk.Design: We performed a cross-sectional study of 728 asymptomatic women aged 45–60 years attending for thyroid screening over a twelve month period. P...

Background: Given the general lack of descriptive epidemiological studies on thyroid storm, we aimed to estimate the incidence rate and case fatality of thyroid storm in Germany based on a large claims database.Methods: Using the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD) we identified patients with at least one inpatient discharge diagnosis of thyroid storm (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems,...

Backgrounds and aim: Epidemiologic evidence suggests that people with diabetes are at significantly higher risk for many forms of cancer. The aim of the research was to identify cancer incidence distribution in Belarusian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Methods: The study group included 73 patients: 46 (63%) women (mean age 65±8 years) and 27 (37%) men (70±7 years) with concurrent diabetes and cancer treated at Alexandrov National Cancer...

The aim of the research was to reveal and assess the interaction between environmental and hereditary factors in obese patients seeking for weight loss.Materials and methods: We analysed the anamnesis of 134 overweight and obese patients, having asked to endocrinologist for losing weight (20 men and 112 women). The mean age of the respondents was 45.78+8, 76 years. 15.7% of patients were overweight, and 84.3% were obese. Heritability of obesity was deter...

Introduction: Old age is defined as late adulthood and is an important part of human’s life. This is the time of life, when exist the real risk of 25OH vitamin D3 deficiency.Aim: The aim of the study was find out the connections between concentration of 25OH vitamin D3 in blood and anthropometrics and biochemical results depending on diseases in persons above 65 years.Materials and methods: The research w...

Objective: Premixed aspart is being used in once, twice and thrice-daily regimes in persons with diabetes. This study was designed as a cross-sectional, observational study to assess the need for three-dose premixed aspart in different subsets of subjects with type 1 and type 2 diabetes attending an endocrine OPD.Methods: Records of 200 consecutive patients receiving premixed insulin were assessed to determine the frequency of insulin dosage and its clin...

Suppressive therapy with thyroxine is the standard conservative treatment for solitary benign thyroid nodules. However, factors which may influence the response to treatment remains controversal, as well as the risc of thyroxine administration.We prospectively evaluated the effects of twelve months thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression with Levothyroxine (L-T4) in reducing the volume of benign solitary nodules, and the effects of reduced...

Subclinical hypothyroidism is defined as a biochemical abnormality characterized by an elevated serum level of sTSH with normal thyroid hormones (FT4) and no clinical symptoms. The objective of this study was to asses whether patients with subclinical hypothyroidism have a risk of hypercholesterolemia. We have evaluated 37 adults (34 female and 3 male), mean age 49.20±9.65 years, with laboratory confirmed subclinical hypothyroidism, sTSH value above of 4.5 mU/L and normal...