Endocrine Abstracts

The lipodystrophic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of congenital or acquired disorders characterized by either complete or partial lack of adipose tissue with the apparent accumulation of fat in other regions of the body. Their prevalence is low and ranges from 1:200000/500000 and they usually suffer metabolic abnormalities associated with the abnormal distributition of fat such as severe insulin resistance with acantosis and diabetes, progressive liver disease along with ...