Endocrine Abstracts

Backgrounds and aims: The aims of the study were, on the one hand, to analize the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a population of institutionalized older people and, on the other hand, to evaluate if the anthropometric parameters and the prevalence of malnutrition and sarcopenia were different in diabetic patients compared with the group of non-diabetics.Methods and material: A total of 312 institutionalized elderly people volunteers with a mea...

Objective: To study the relation between incretin-based therapies, DPP-4 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists, and tumor stage at the time of diagnosis of pancreatic and biliary tract cancer.Methods: Retrospective study of type 2 diabetic patients with newly diagnosed of pancreatic or biliary tract cancer attended consecutively in a tertiary hospital between the years 2012 and 2015.Results: A total of 37 patients were included. T...

Introduction: Recent studies have pointed out a possible role of vitamin D in carcinogenesis. Vitamin D deficiency may be related to a major cancer incidence and mortality. This association would be more relevant for breast and colorectal cancer. Obesity acts as a risk factor for these type of neoplasms on which vitamin D could influence.Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study of consecutive out-patients with newly diagnosed cancer: urological, col...

Introduction: A new subtype of diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) has been described in the last years among African, Asian and Hispanic population with characteristics similar to type 1 diabetes (DM1) such as cardinal symptoms, tendency to ketosis and decreased pancreatic reserve at onset, but with negative autoimmunity. The aim of this study was to compare this type of patients with those with type 1 diabetes at onset and their evolution.Material a...

Background: Subclinical hyperthyroidism (SHT) is associated with harmful effects on cardiovascular system, bone metabolism and progression to clinical hyperthyroidism. Loss of weight is a common fact in patients with clinical hyperthyroidism and of particular relevance in elderly patients, who are vulnerable to sarcopenia.Objective: To assess changes in body composition after radioiodine therapy for SHT due to toxic nodular goitre....

Introduction: Vasoactive intestinal peptide-producing tumours (VIPomas) represent a rare type of neuroendocrine tumour whose incidence is 1 in 10 million per year. Most are located in the pancreas. They cause diffuse watery (secretory) diarrhoea, hypokalaemia and achlorhydria and also appear as an uncommon cause of hypercalcaemia.Case report A 69-year-old female with previous diagnosis of a ‘non-functioning’ neuroendocrine pancreatic tumour (20...