Endocrine Abstracts

Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs decreasing bone resorption by inhibition of the farnesyl diphosphate synthase step in the mevalonic acid pathway and therefore are believed to have beneficial effects on bone status. Objective is to examine the relationship between lipid status and duration of statin therapy on the bone metabolism in dyslipidemic patients. A hundred and sixty subjects were divided into five groups depending on duration of statin therapy: (controls 0 years...

Objectives: To compare obesity treatment with intragastric balloon (BIB – Bioenterics intragastric balloon) and behavioral-cognitive approach in order to determine the effectivness of these two methods in inducing weight loss, their impact on different features of metabolic syndrome and liver enzymes profile, and finally to evaluate patients attitudes and expectations regarding weight loss together with motivation and readiness to change their behaviour in order to lose w...