Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To determine the degree of control of hypercholesterolemia in a specific lipid unit.Material and Methods: Retrospective study of patients followed in our unit over the past 16 years diagnosed with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) or familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH). Control criteria according to the following recommendations were compared: International Panel (2003), Nice (2008), NLA (2011), ESC / ESA 2011, Consensus ADA ...

Objective: Transition from pediatric to adult health care is a particularly vulnerable period for patients with inborn metabolic diseases.Our objective in this study was to evaluate the current transition of patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) in Malaga, Spain, by analysis of the metabolic control, medical care, patients satisfaction and phychosocial status.Material and methods: We evaluate all the patients transferred to our adult...

Objective: To determine the characteristics of patients with familiar hypercholesterolemia studied in a specific unit of lipids.Material and methods: A descriptive study of patients followed in our unit over the last 16 years diagnosed with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) or familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH).Results: Data from 111 patients were analyzed: 66 with HFH and 45 with FCH.Featu...

Rationale: Our aim has been to describe the assistance demand and the profile of patients treated in the eating disorders unit in our hospital.Methods: Observational retrospective study (reviewing medical histories).Results: One thousand two hundred and fourteen patients have been treated at the eating disorders unit between 1996 and 2012, 91.8% female. Age at first visit: 22.1±8.3 years. Time of monitoring tracking: 1.2±...

Objectives: MODY diabetes is the most common form of monogenic diabetes, encompassing a heterogeneous group of disorders whose primary defect results from mutations in one of at least seven genes recognized, associated with a primary defect in insulin secretion. It has early onset and autosomal dominant inheritance.Our objective was to evaluate the results of monogenic diabetes clinic of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Department during 2008–2012.</...