Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Many antipsychotics are obesogenic and contribute to significant weight gain with serious implications on patients’ physical and mental well-being. However, patients on antipsychotics are often excluded from unmodified lifestyle-intervention weight management programmes and trials.Objectives: To determine if weight loss is possible for antipsychotic-medicated obese patients when enrolled in an unmodified lifestyle-intervention weight man...

Introduction: It appears recently that the lack of physical activity might not be a factor for obesity but rather a consequence of perceptual-motor difficulties (D’Hondt et al. 2011). Perception and action are two intertwined processes: perception is a means to action and action is a means to perception. Not being able to perceive correctly visual or auditory information would alter someone’s movement kinematics of any given task. The key question is how do ...

Abstract: Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally. At least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of being overweight or obese, the biggest burden being obesity-related diseases. Glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) targeted therapies show the greatest potential for intervention and are approved as weight loss agents. However not all patients respond to GLP-1 therapy. Understanding the mechanisms of bodyweight regulation and their role in GLP-1 responders vs. non-r...

Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is very high among elderly people and can faster the cognitive decline and the loss of independence, if not treated adequately. Another topic not clearly explained yet is the relationship between vitamin D and type 2 diabetes mellitus.Objective: The aim of our work is to reveal relationship between diabetes control and self-sufficiency and to determine the possible impact of the current levels of vit...

Introduction: Patients in secure forensic psychiatric units are at high risk of developing obesity due to complex interplay of factors including antipsychotic medications, restrictions on freedom and poor motivation to healthy lifestyle and physical activities.Aim: To establish the prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a secure forensic psychiatric hospital in the Republic of Ireland (ROI).Methods: We carried out a...

The oral antidiabetic drug, glibenclamide, stimulates the insulin producing β-cells constantly through a harsh mechanism which eventually may permanently reverse its endocrinofunction. The study investigates the protective effects from Swietenia seed and endocarp aqueous-methanol extract on pancreatic islets histology in rats of type 2 DM model. Phytochemical analyses were performed prior to the in vivo study to screen the aqueous-methanolic extract of the combin...

Introduction: Post-surgical hypoparathyroidism (PSHP) is a frequent complication following ENT surgery. Some patients with head/neck cancers require enteral nutrition (EN) due to dysphagia, mucositis after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, or post-surgical anatomical complications. Formulas of calcitriol are not suitable to be administered via enteral feeding tubes, and side effects of systemic antineoplastic treatment (nausea, vomiting) make calcium and phosphate serum levels dif...

Background: Bariatric surgery (BS) has proven to be an effective and sustainable long-term treatment in the remission of metabolic disorders. Bile acids (BAs) are involved in the improvement of metabolic comorbidities by acting on the distal ileum (releasing GLP1, PYY and FGF19) and on the microbiota. Our aim is to verify whether the formation of ABs depends on the type of bariatric surgery.Subjects and Methods: 21 patients (81% women) underwent bariatri...