Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate the chance of developing new cases of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in obese people in the population sample of the city of Novosibirsk aged 45–69 years.Materials and methods: The analysis included 2464 people, including 586 (23.7%) men and 1878 (76.2%) women without DM. This sample was formed from the base of the international project HAPIEE surveyed from 2003 to 2005. When conducting a re-screening of the same sample in 2006...

The mechanism of autoimmune destruction of thyrocytes in pathogenesis of Hashimoto thyroiditis remain unclear. It has been showed that the HT patients produce antibodies to DNA, which are directed against various structures of the nucleus and probably may be involved in process of apoptosis.In order to show that the increased production of anti-DNA antibodies is intrinsic property of HT, but not of another non-autoimmune thyroid diseases, we have measure...