Risk factors of subclinical atherosclerosis in obesity and overweight.

Objective: To examine the relationship of carotid intima-media thickness with weight-gain, overweight and obesity..

Methods: The experimental, analytical study was conducted at the CF University Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from 2012 to 2014, and comprised randomly selected in patients from the Medical Ward.

Accuracy of transvaginal ultrasonography compared to endometrial biopsy for the etiological diagnosis of abnormal perimenopausal bleeding.

Background And Aims: Perimenopause is marked by clinical manifestations which disturb everyday life and which may also hide a pathomorphological, more precisely endometrial, substrate. An accurate early diagnosis established by accessible, non-invasive methods is very important for the therapeutic management.

Method: The study included 103 patients aged between 41.