Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity is associated with high risk for coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, elevated serum cholesterol level, malignancy and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. After weight loss, especially after bariatric surgery there is improvement in blood pressure, metabolic parameters and ventilatory anaerobic threshold.Material and methods: Ergospirometry (Shiller CS-200, Bruce protocol) was performed in 50 obese patients before and six months afte...