Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Central obesity and the consequent metabolic syndrome have global devastating effect on the health system due to their strong association with type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disorder. There are contradictory results about the influence of insulin resistance and visceral adipose tissue on bone phenotype. The study was designed to evaluate the association between bone quality and bone mineral density (BMD) with bone marrow adipose tissue (MAT) as well ...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a complex disease, occurring after extensive resection of the small intestine, leading to malabsorption of nutrients and fluids. Lipids storage significantly affects bone maintenance. Caloric restriction promotes bone and adipose tissue (AT) loss but marrow adipose tissue (MAT) expansion. SBS is a condition strongly associated with malnutrition; patient survival initially depends of caloric replacement through parenteral nutrition (PN). The presen...