Endocrine Abstracts

Hypovitaminosis D is associated with an increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) and the metabolic syndrome. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25-OH-VitD) levels and adipocytokines and other indices of insulin resistance in a Saudi population with DMT2. One-hundred and fifty-five male and female Saudi adults aged 26–80 were randomly selected from the existing Biomarkers Screening in Riyadh Program (RIYADH...

Background: Prediabetes (PD) is a significant risk factor diabetes mellitus (DM) and as such, behavioral interventions are the primary management for PD. High blood glucose levels alter circulating NLRP3 inflammasome complex activity and correlated interleukins (ILs). There is limited data available on the activity of NLRP3 inflammasome and ILs in sera of patients with PD that may or may have not developed DM. This interventional study assessed the effects of NLRP3 inflammasom...

Introduction: The endoplasmic reticulum enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase catalyzes the common terminal reaction in the gluconeogenic and glycogenolytic pathways and plays a central role in glucose homeostasis. In most mammals, different G6PC subunits are encoded by three paralogous genes (G6PC, G6PC2, and G6PC3). Mutations in G6PC and G6PC3 are responsible for human Mendelian diseases, whereas variants in G6PC2 are associated with fasting glucose (FG) levels.<p class="abstext"...