Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: New treatments of diabetes, such as dapagliflozin, improve global metabolic status beyond glycemic control.Aim: To evaluate tolerance to dapagliflozin and its effects on metabolic control in type 2 diabetes and obese patients attended in endocrinology offices.Material and method: A prospective study of patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. In an intra-subject analysis, clinical and analytical data were evaluated ...

Introduction: ALS is a neurodegenerative disease with a high prevalence of malnutrition. Nutritional diagnosis is important because of its prognostic implication.Objective: To determine the clinical and morphofunctional characteristics in a series of patients with ALS.Materials and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study of patients seen at the multidisciplinary ALS clinic of the Hospital Puerta del Mar (Cádiz).<p class...

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of once-weekly exenatide on metabolic control, weight, blood pressure, and lipid profile in obese patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and to assess possible predictive factors of response.Material and methods: Retrospective observational study, conducted with adult obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) T2DM subjects that had been initiated once-weekly exenatide following routine clinica...

Aim: Evaluation of hypocortisolism and replacement treatment after transsphenoidal surgery pituitary adenomas and subsequent follow-up in Endocrinology offices.Material and methodWe conducted a retrospective intra-subject study of patients with pituitary adenomas who were undergone surgery. Clinical and analytical data were evaluated at baseline and after surgery between 2012–2018.Results: 30 patients (...

Introduction: New diabetes treatments, such as lixisenatide, improve global metabolic status beyond glycemic control.Aim: To evaluate lixisenatide effects on liver function, lipids and blood pressure levels in type 2 diabetes and obese patients attended in endocrinology offices.Material and method: This is a prospective study with a sample of 106 patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. In an intra-subject analysis, clinical and ...