Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with diabetes.Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among patients admitted to the William. Harvey Hospital in England between March 10th and May10th, 2020 with a laboratory confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), known as COVID19. Variation in characteristics, length of stay in hospital, diabetes status, dur...

Introduction: Increased visceral adiposity is usually associated with a clustering of atherogenic risk factors, such as insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, alterations in coagulation and inflammatory cytokine profiles. Visceral adipose tissue derived serpin (Vaspin) is an adipokine with insulin sensitizing effect which is markedly elevated in high body mass index (BMI) people.Aim: To evaluate serum Vaspin level in relation to atherogenic risk...