Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid cancer is one of the common head and neck malignancies and may be found incidentally with other head and neck cancers. The purpose is to evaluate the prevalence and risk of malignancy in incidental thyroid lesions identified by ultrasound (US) in patients with head and neck cancer. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of all patients with head and neck cancer other than of thyroid origin between January 2004 and January 2012. A total of 697 patients (542 men and...

Backgroud: The association with daily calcium intake and sarcopenia has not been well established.Objective: The objective was to assess the associate of daily calcium intake and sarcopenia.Methods: We analysed the fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) in old adult (over 50 years), conducted in 2009. A total of 1964 non-obese (body mass index (BMI) <25 kg/m2) old adults (871 men and ...

Aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is reported to contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes, but it is largely unknown whether such a relationship between NAFLD and incident diabetes relates to the severity of NAFLD or it is independent. We aimed to evaluate the association of the severity of NAFLD with development of type 2 diabetes in a retrospective cohort of Korean subjects.Methods: This study included 7,849 individuals without dia...