[Role of homocysteine in the pathogenesis of vascular complications of type 2 diabetes].

The purpose of the investigation was to study the plasma levels of homocysteine (HC) inpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and its association with the development of diabetic angiopathies and some clinical and laboratory parameters. Among 92 patients with DM2, hyperhomocysteinemia (22.6±6.

[Hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid system in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Aim: Study of the function of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid system in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three hundred and fifty patients with RA of different forms, stages, and intensity were examined. The blood and synovial fluid (SF) levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) were measured by immunoradiometric assay.

Results: Patients with RA were found to have higher T4 levels (in articular rheumatism, there was its negative correlation with the intensity of the process and in the presence of systemic manifestations of RA, there was a positive correlation).