Endocrine Abstracts

Background: There is a clear relationship between obesity and carbohydrate metabolism alterations (CMA), such as impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and T2D. OGTT is used for the diagnosis of those alterations, but is not performed in case of normal fasting glucose values (NFG). Moreover, BMI underestimates the diagnosis of obesity and body composition alteration can be crucial to the development of abnormal carbohydrate metabolism. This study aimed to examine the discriminating ...