Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Diabetes and obesity – Translational cardiovascular and obesityData regarding the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and their influence on clinical outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are scarce. Our aim is to investigate the frequency of positive screening for ED and, specifically binge eating disorder (BED), in a T2DM sample. To analyse whether there are any differences among T2DM subjects with a positive screening for ED or BED.<p clas...

Background and aims: Obesity is linked to a low-grade and chronic systemic inflammation that improves after a significant weight loss. In the same way, depressive disorder has been suggested to be associated with systemic inflammation up regulation. We aimed to explore whether, after a significant weight loss, the presence of depressive symptoms was associated with differences in terms of inflammatory markers and quality of life compared with individuals without significant de...

Introduction: Information regarding eating disorders (ED) in postsurgical outcomes after bariatric surgery (BS) is scarce.Objectives: To analyze the effect of BS on ED and to investigate if ED influence clinical, biochemical or psychological outcomes.Methods: Sixty patients (78.3%♀, age 46.35±9.89, months since BS 46.28±28.1) who underwent BS, with a minimum follow up of 12 months, were evaluated cross-sectionally. ...

Adrenal ganglioneuroma (AGN) is a rare neoplasm derived from the neural crest. It can be found along the paravertebral sympathetic plexus. Mean age at presentation is below 20 years. Most patients with AGN are asymptomatic and diagnosis is usually incidental.Case report: Fourty three-year-old man with a personal history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in whom a follicular small cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was diagnosed after a biopsy of a left supracl...