Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic and carries excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. HDL efflux capacity (HEC) was shown to be inversely correlated with cardiovascular risk (CVR), both in the acute and the chronic phases. Our aim was to understand if decreased HEC can serve as a surrogate marker for the increased CVR in this population.Methods: Forty patients: 10 obese diabetic (OD), 10 obese non-diabetic (OND), 10 with stable C...