Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Acromegaly is a rare chronic and debilitating disease. More than half of patients are not well controlled and most of them require chronic surveillance. Although IGF1 and GH circulating levels are the main targets, they are not in close relationship with the behaviour of the tumour, the clinical course of the disease, the therapy response and the associated comorbidities. Metabolomics is an emergent research tool that we have used to examine in a massive manner the...

Background: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), the visceral fat of de myocardium, has been positively related to insulin resistance (IR), cardiovascular risk and the left ventricular myocardial mass. Whether EAT thickness in acromegaly is mediated by GH/IGF-1, IR or other factors remains to be elucidated.Objective: The aims of this study were: 1) To investigate whether EAT in patients with ACRO is linked to IR and pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory rel...

Background: The cortisol suppression test with 1 mg dexamethasone (DST) is a screening test for hypercortisolism with high sensitivity (95%) for serum cortisol cut-off <1.8 μg/dl. However, cortisol tests may give false positive in patients with severe obesity (SO). On the other hand, bariatric surgery (BS) is the most effective treatment for SO, and the operated population is growing. At present there is no reliable data regarding the impact of BS on DST results in pa...

Background: Acromegaly (ACRO) is associated with greater cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, however, this is not entirely explained by the increase in classic cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF). C-reactive protein, galectin 3, adiponectin, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), apolipoprotein E, interleukin-6 and echocardiographic variables such as epicardial fat (EF) and interventricular septum thickness (IST) have been suggested as non-classical CVRF in the general populatio...