Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundIndividuals who do day/night shifts or who are exposed to 24 hours of daylight have a greater CVS risk. This may relate to effects on the diurnal rhythm of sleep, appetite or cortisol.AimsTo investigate the variations in the diurnal cortisol secretion, appetite and sleep in young healthy civilians from the UK during a five week expedition to Svalbard in the Arctic with 24 hours of daylight.<p cl...

Background: In a research setting, complex behavioural interventions are effective in changing lifestyle behaviour and inducing weight loss. However, these are viewed as requiring a high number of different health care professionals to be successful and thus few are available in the NHS setting. Here we describe how we developed and piloted a complex behavioural intervention for participants with severe morbid obesity.Methods: Using input from a psycholo...