Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Microalbuminuria is known as a predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with and without diabetes, as well as the general population. The objective was to determine whether there was an association between the urinary albumin excretion and CVD risk by estimating the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) in nondiabetic middle-aged adults.Methods: This study was based on data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,...

Objective: Sarcopenic obesity is a double burden for older people because it carries the cumulative risk of functional abnormality, metabolic, cardiovascular risk, and mortality compared to either sarcopenia or obesity alone. Diabetes is related to an increase in visceral adiposity and is associated with the risk of sarcopenia. The objective was to explore the association between sarcopenic obesity and diabetes and determine the associated factors with sarcopenic obesity in ol...