Endocrine Abstracts

Background: According to the 6th National Nutrition Health Survey, the Filipino is generally unfit, with increasing incidences of major risk factors for cardiovascular disease like hypertension, abnormal lipid profile, obesity and diabetes over the last 5 years. Orlistat, a lipase inhibitor is one of the medications used to facilitate weight loss in obese patients. Given that weight loss is known to be associated with an improvement in the serum lipid profile, concurrent impro...

Background: The current recommendation on the use of venous sampling is reserved for difficult cases of small pheochromocytoma. Bilateral adrenal venous sampling (BAVS) with glucagon stimulation has been reported to be safe and useful in the early diagnosis of the disease. For bilateral lesions, localization can be challenging but highly important since the removal of the dominant side can markedly improve fatal cardiovascular outcomes as a consequence of chronic hypertension....