Endocrine Abstracts

Current evidence suggests that bariatric surgery offers the best hope for substantial and sustainable weight loss in patients with morbid obesity. These facts, coupled with the improved minimally invasive procedures, have driven a four-fold increase in the number of bariatric operations performed over recent years in the UK.Bariatric surgery though is not suitable for everyone. A BMI>59, Age>50, smoking, sleep apnoea and CVD disease all increase ...

Background: Diabetes increases the risk of developing coronary heart disease irrespective of glycaemic control. Cortisol and growth hormone (GH) abnormalities have been found in these patients and have been proposed as possible mechanisms for this increased risk.Regular exercise, through an unknown mechanism, can modify cardiovascular risk and so prevent or delay the progression of coronary heart disease. In this study we assessed whether an exercise program would a...