Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obese patients are at an increased risk of develop nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Evidence supports that bariatric surgery might have an important impact on hepatic profile in obese adults. Literature suggests that bariatric surgery in adolescents might decrease the prevalence of some comorbidities, but information about its impact on liver profile and steatosis and fibrosis risk remains scarce.Aim: To evaluate the impact of bariatric su...

Introduction: Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease and its prevalence in pediatric age has increased. Obesity prejudices the individual metabolic profile due to the adipotoxicity involved in this condition. Bariatric surgery improves the weight of obese patients along with metabolic comorbidities, being today one of the most effective treatments for obesity. Time of exposure to adipotoxicity appears to be an important risk factor for the development of metabolic complic...

Introduction: Thyroid hormones play a central role in the regulation of the cardiovascular system. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is responsible for more than 50% of all heart failure cases and its main pathophysiological alteration is diastolic dysfunction. Diminished thyroid function is known to predominantly impair diastolic function, however the thyroid hormone status in HFpEF remains largely unknown.Methods: We evaluated an a...

Introduction: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a clinical syndrome with high mortality, for which there are few disease modifying therapeutics. Thyroid axis dysfunction is common in heart failure (HF) and may contribute to the pathogenesis of HFpEF. However, the association of thyroid hormones (TH) with the clinical status of HFpEF patients and their prognostic impact in this syndrome are not clear. Methods: We evaluated 93 parti...

Introduction: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) are two syndromes with increasing clinical relevance, mainly due to the rising prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Despite sharing a common metabolic background, the association between NAFLD severity and HFpEF has not yet been well explored.Aim: To evaluate the association of NAFLD steatosis and fibrosis scores with cardiovascular function an...

IntroductionHeart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) denotes a growing challenge due to the population aging and the rising prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors.AimWe aimed to evaluate the influence of the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the signs and symptoms, comorbidities and echocardiographic and vascular evaluation of patients with HFpEF in a stable phase....

Background: Bariatric surgery leads to weight loss and to cardiometabolic risk improvement. Although prediabetes remission after bariatric surgery is biologically plausible, data on this topic is scarce.Aim: We aimed to access pre-diabetes remission rate and clinical predictors of remission in a 4 year follow up period.Methods: Observational longitudinal study including patients with morbid obesity and prediabetes submitted to bari...