Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Plasma glucose concentration at 1h(1hPG) during an oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT) may be a better predictor of future diabetes mellitus(DM) than 2-h post load glucose concentration(2hPG). HIV-infected individuals may have differential risk of DM compared to the general population, and the optimal diagnosis algorithm for DM in HIV-infected persons remain unclear. We evaluated the agreement of the methods 1 hPG vs 2 hPG) for the diagnosis of pre-D...

Introduction: The highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) completely changed the natural history and body composition of the infected patients. The lipodystrophy syndrome of HIV-infected patients (IP) is characterized by fat mass redistribution in the limbs, face lipoatrophy and abdominal lipohypertrophy. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scan (DEXA) and bioelectrical impedance (BIA) are techniques to determine body composition (BC).Aims: Evaluate th...