Endocrine Abstracts

Although the effect of aging on adipose tissue metabolism have been thoroughly studied for years, changes in the antilipolytic action of insulin in visceral white adipose tissue from aged rats are still not completely understood. By fact, some contradictory data on the inhibition of isoproterenol-induced lipolysis by insulin with aging have been reported. As aging is a significant risk factor for increasing adiposity and the development of obesity, we hypothesized that the inh...

Introduction: Control of hypertension (HT) is essential to reduce cardiovascular events in diabetic patients (DPts). However, studies indicate that only 50% of DPts with treated hypertension present adequate blood pressure (BP) control. Yet Endocrine-Society-Guideline (ESG) screening for primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) is rarely applied. Furthermore, in patients with essential hypertension (EH), longer-acting hypertension medication (HM) improves 24-hour BP when compared to r...

Lung neuroendocrine neoplasms (LungNENs) are highly heterogeneous tumors, which are classified by the WHO according to their histological grade into low grade: Typical Carcinoids (TC) and intermediate grade Atypical Carcinoids (AC), and high-grade: Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma (LCNEC) and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). Recently, a number of studies have tried to untangle the molecular features that define each subtype by applying different approaches, including genomic,...