Endocrine Abstracts

Recently, several groups have described a subset of obese women, who despite having excessive total body fat, are insulin sensitive (ISO for Insulin Sensitive Obese), normotensive and present a favorable lipid profile. Adiponectin, ghrelin and leptin play important roles in the regulation of energy metabolism and food intake. Moreover, all three hormones have been reported to be closely linked to insulin resistance and regulated by insulin. Therefore, we propose to investigate...

Patients suffering from critical illness usually exhibit a characteristic functional state of thyrotropic feedback control that is referred to as non-thyroidal illness syndrome (NTIS). Today, there are still important questions unsolved, e.g. regarding the interdependence of immunological and endocrine functions in critical illness.Therefore, in the context of the prospective AQUA FONTIS study we investigated 164 patients that were treated in medical, su...