Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: COVID-19 has taken on pandemic proportions. Phase angle (PhA) and Standardized phase angle (SPhA) have been related to mortality and severity in several diseases.Objetives: To determine the predictive role of PhA and SPhA on 90 days survival of adults with COVID-19.Methods: A longitudinal cohort study with 127 consecutive patients diagnosed with COVID-19. We collected PhA, SPhA, body composition (fat mass, fat free ma...

Introduction: Data on body composition in patients with achondroplasia are scarce. The Phase Angle (PA) is a bioelectric measurement of our body cells. The PA is considered to be a global prognostic factor that gives information about cellular function in relation to body composition.Objectives: To describe body composition parameters PA, standardized PA (sPA), resistance (Rz), reactance (Xc), body cell mass (BCM), total body water (TBW), fat mass (FM), ...

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency is a common health problem worldwide, particularly in elderly patients. Vitamin D is considered a key hormone in mineral and bone metabolism, as well as in functions such as the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation, its immunoregulatory activity, its effect on the cardiovascular system and its neuroprotective and anti-ageing effects, among others. Hypovitaminosis D has been linked in multiple studies to a higher incidence and ...

Introduction: Obesity is defined as a chronic disease by AACE/ACE. Includes presence/severity of complications. VLCD diets induce relevant weight loss by improving these complications. PA is a bioelectric measure of the cell mass and it is marker a global prognostic factor of cellular functionalism.Methods: Case-control retrospective study of severe obesity in a weight loss program comparing intensive intervention (41 cases, VLCD 800 kcal/d, 1g protein/k...

Introduction and Objectives: Preperitoneal fat is an ectopic visceral adipose tissue with a significant proinflammatory metabolic impact. The objective of this study is to measure preperitoneal fat by nutritional ultrasound at discharge, 3 months and 6 months in a cohort of patients who required admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to severe COVID-19 pneumonia, and to analyze the differences based on the presence or not of previous DM.Material ...

Objective: To evaluate continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) in type 1 diabetes using the analysis of epidemiological variables, treatment indications, metabolic results, acute and chronic complications and causes for therapy suspension.Methods: A retrospective descriptive study of patients with type 1 diabetes treated with CSII therapy in our institution.Results: A total of 49 type 1 diabetic patients who had been treate...

Objectives: To determine the lifestyle in patients with morbid obesity in a previous group and in a group after performing bariatric surgery.Material and methods: Cross-sectional study in two groups of patients with morbid obesity one before and one after bariatric surgery attended in the Clinical Management Unit of Endocrinology and Nutrition of the Puerta del Mar Hospital in Cádiz. The clinical and analytical data of the patients, the sociodemogra...

Objectives: To evaluate the psychosocial aspects in a group of patients in follow-up in specific consultation of bariatric surgery prior to the intervention and in a group of patients intervened.Methods: Cross-sectional study of patients in follow-up in the specific morbid obesity consultation of the University Hospital Puerta del Mar (Cádiz) not intervened and a group intervened and in a group intervened, at 6–12 months of follow-up.<p cla...

The relationship between gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and oxidative stress is not well known and the effect of oxidative stress in GDM placenta and the impact that could have on perinatal morbidity and risk of future complications is also yet to be elucidated. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationships between maternal and placental tissue levels of markers of oxidative stress and antioxidants in women with GDM, which potentially may have considerable clinic...

Objectives: To evaluate the psychosocial aspects and the common dietary habits in a group of patients in follow-up in specific consultation of bariatric surgery prior to the intervention.Methods: Cross-sectional study of patients in follow-up in the specific morbid obesity consultation of the University Hospital Puerta del Mar (Cádiz) not intervened.Results: 110 patients were analyzed, of which 68.2% are women, with an average...