Endocrine Abstracts

Nutritional status has an important effect on the progression of any disease, not only in hospitalized patients, even more in ambulatory patient of primary care. Although there are many systems of evaluating nutritional status, they are costly and subject to variability amongst individuals. The Medicine Laboratory can correctly perform a nutritional evaluation in a quick an efficient manner.Objective: Analyze the nutritional status by CONUT nutritional e...

Background: Nutrition is essential in achieving maximal treatment success after bariatric surgery, and is simultaneously beneficial for avoiding long-term complications. Dietary protein could have an important role, because of its positive effects on preservation of muscle mass and induction of satiety in non-bariatric subjects. Therefore, we investigated the effects of dietary protein, assessed by amino acid composition, on satiety, hunger and gastrointestinal hormones after ...