Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Obesity is associated with dyslipidemia through insulin resistance and adipokines secretion, and weight loss can improve obese patients’ lipid profile. Here we aimed to assess whether non interventional weight changes are associated with alterations in the lipid profile, particularly the triglycerides (TG) to high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ratio (TG/HDL) which is an emerging marker for insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and an elev...

Background: Borderline isolatednorepinephrine (NE) and normetanephrine (NMT) elevation is common among patients with suspected pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL). The clonidine suppression test (CST) may help establish the etiology in these cases. Prolonged laboratory processing and/or paucity of reliable biochemical assaysmay limit the utility of CST. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether blood pressure (BP) reduction during CST is associated with alterations i...