ea0037ep648 | Obesity and cardiovascular endocrinology | ECE2015
Crowe Catherine
, Gibson Irene
, Griffin Helena
, Murphy Anette
, Finucane Francis
Introduction: Skin tags (acrochordons) are a recognised feature of insulin resistance, but the extent to which they predict an adverse metabolic profile or the response to lifestyle modification in severely obese adults is not known.Aims: We sought to quantify prospectively differences in anthropometric and metabolic characteristics in severely obese adults with acrochordons vs those without acrochordons, and to determine whether the presence of acrochor...