Endocrine Abstracts

Objective - Sarcopenic phenotype is associated with the increased risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. We investigated the proportion of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity (SO) and their clinical characteristics in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.Research design and methods - We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 133 (75 men, 58 women) patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. All patients underwent a 75 g oral glucose t...

Myostatin is expressed predominantly in skeletal muscle and at significantly lower levels in adipose tissue. The loss of myostatin by gene disruption prevents an age-related increase in adipose tissue mass and partially attenuates the obese and diabetic phenotypes. Inhibition of myostatin signaling could be useful to prevent and/or treat obesity and diabetes. Male OLETF and LETO rats as non-diabetic controls were treated with or without ALA (100 mg/kg per day) and/or insulin (...