Active clinical trials for "Endocrine System Diseases"

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a serious health problem that has increased dramatically worldwide due to the high and increasing prevalence of obesity. Medical management of T2DM is of limited success. Because not well controlled T2DM patients are in high risk of blindness, cardiovascular accident and end staged disease, T2DM has become a major health burden for society. Recent data on the relative effectiveness of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery played as bariatric surgery in the remission of T2DM, suggests that it may be significantly more effective than current medical treatment. In considering that less than half of the T2DM patients can achieve satisfactory treatment goal under current medical treatment, gastrointestinal metabolic surgery shall play an important role in T2DM treatment in the future. However, the indication for metabolic surgery and clinical predictors of success are not clear now. These clinical predictors can help us to choose appropriate not-well controlled T2DM patients to receive metabolic surgery and reduce dverse health outcomes in those patients.

The principal aim of the present study is to analyze adiponectin, omentin-1, apelin and visfatin plasma levels in patients with and without AF in an effort to identify their potential role in the development of AF.

This study is designed as a prospective non-randomized longitudinal single- center cohort study to evaluate the importance of correcting total serum calcium levels. It will enroll around 100 patients undergoing total thyroidectomy with data being collected from March 2020 up to August 2020. The aim of this study is to determine whether total serum calcium level should be corrected for serum albumin in assessing symptomatic hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy and which variable (total serum calcium, ionized calcium, corrected serum calcium for albumin with Payne's formula or early PTH) is the most valuable predictor of symptomatic hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy.

The overarching aims of this study are to: Characterize the rate of in vivo adipogenesis, and changes in adipose tissue gene and protein expression, in the scABD and scFEM depots of women undergoing surgical menopause (↓E2, ↑FSH). Characterize the rate of in vivo adipogenesis, and changes in adipose tissue gene and protein expression, in the scABD and scFEM depots of women undergoing gonadal suppression (↓E2, ↓FSH).

The aim of the study is to determine the state of sexual development in patients with inherited epidermolysis bullosa; the study is planned to include boys and girls aged 8 to 18 years with a diagnosis of epidermolysis bullosa simplex, junctional epidermolysis bullosa, Kindler syndrome.

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential for an association between the development of prepubertal gynecomastia and history exposure to lavender essential oil, tea tree essential oil, and other essential oils.

Adipocytokines play an important role in joint inflammation in patients with knee osteoarthritis as measured by ultrasound and high sensitivity protein-C reactive. Adipocytokines could be the link between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular risk factors more prevalent in these patients.

The aim of the study is to assess bone geometry, bone compartment specific volumetric densities and micro-architecture as well as to evaluate non-invasive estimates of bone strength in patients with adult onset growth hormone deficiency.