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 ...