Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease for which causal mechanisms are incompletely understood and subclassification may improve patient management. In the latest assessment of patients with adult-onset diabetes, Ahlqvist and colleagues (2018) defined five new subgroups: an autoimmune form, two severe forms (insulin-deficient and insulin-resistant diabetes) and two mild forms (obesity and age-related diabetes).Objectives:...

Introduction: Moderate weight loss (5–10%) translates into health benefits, including improvement in cardiovascular risk. It is essential to assess the results and indicators of success in treating obesity, which is the objective of this work.Methods: A retrospective study of patients with overweight and obesity, followed in Nutrition consultation between 2004 and 2010. We analyzed biodemographic and anthropometric variables, consultation reason and...