Endocrine Abstracts

We report an 18-year-old boy referred to our outpatient clinic at 8 years and 11 months of age with a history of early-onset childhood hiperphagia, infantile central hipotonia and lethargy, mild mental retardation and emotional instability. His height was 125 cm, height SDS = -1 (target height = 169,5 cm, SDS = -0,78) and he weighted 40 Kg (BMI = 25,6;WFH =164%). He had small hands and feet, fat face with prominent forehead, bitemporal narrowing, triangular upper lip, microgna...

Objectives: To evaluate changes in gonadotrophins, total (TT) and free (FT) testosterone, SHBG, insulin and c-peptide levels during weight lost after bariatric surgery.Material and methods: Seven (n=7) patients submitted to bariatric surgery for treatment of severe obesity were followed-up over time. Before surgery mean age was 32,857 (19-56) years old, mean weight was 170,571 kg (± 37,362) and mean BMI was 58,824 kg per m2(± 14,...

Recent studies have suggested that upper body adiposity is associated with major cardiovascular risk (CVR). However most of them were conducted in obese patients. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of neck circumference (NC) in a non-obese Brazilian adult population, considering that it would be a simple and time-saving measurement to identify patients with worse cardiometabolic profile. We evaluated 279 non-obese Brazilian adults [86 men (♂), 193 women (&#979...