Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity prevalence is growing every year. In most cases, origin is exogenous, a mixture of sedentary and overeating. However, some patients are trend to develop obesity caused by their genetics and other illness.Case report: A 62-year-old women with diabetes type 2, anxiety and osteoporosis was remitted to our center for obesity. She had been obese since childhood, with very low level of activity and snacking trend. On physical examination ...

Aim: Description of the differences between patients diagnosed of essential (EH) vs. secondary (SH) hypertension in our Outpatient Hypertension Clinic.Methods: Review of the Clinical Records and of the relevant literature. Comparisons were made by non-paired t-test in continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test in discrete variables.Results: From 1994 to 2018, 49 patients < 20 years old were referred to our (mostly adult)...