Endocrine Abstracts

Nowadays Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is not considered a lung specific disease: nutritional alteration, weight loss due to increased energetic expenditure, loss of muscle mass are systemic effects, correlated with the risk of hospitalization due to exacerbation (AECOPD). AECOPD, characterised by augmented indexes like C reactive protein, interleukin-6, procalcitonin and serum amyloid A (SAA), negatively influenced natural history of the illness and were found ...

Oxidative stress (OS) could play an important role in metabolic syndrome (MS)-related manifestations contributing to insulin resistance (IR). The reciprocal influences between OS and IR are not clear. We investigated the effects of dietary antioxidants on IR, studying 24 obese (7 males and 17 females, 27–66 years), with IR evaluated by HOMA index, during treatment with metformin, comparing 2 dietary treatments: hypocaloric diet (group A, n=16) or a diet enriched wi...