Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Eating habits may contribute to longevity. Consumption of red meat, source of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol may be associated with increased risks of diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mortality risk.Methods: We studied 521 subjects, both genders, 253 centenarians (CENT) (100.26±1.98 age) and 268 controls (67.51±3.25 age), both low (LCR) and high cardiovascular risk (HCR), calculated based on QRISK®2-2016. An...

Introduction: Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is a useful marker of ovarian reserve (OR), since it remains stable inter/intra-cycles and presents a good correlation with ultrasonographic antral follicular count. Obesity/overweight are increasing and may affect the reproductive health. However, previous studies regarding the effect of body mass index (BMI) on AMH levels are discordant. Our main goal was to evaluate the influence of BMI in AMH levels in women with infertility....

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is one of the most frequent forms of malignancy. Because of its favourable outcome and low mortality rates, identifying prognostic factors has been a challenge. Several risk stratification systems have been developed. Most of them include demographic and tumour specific features, as well as extrathyroidal extension. Our objective was to compare clinical characteristics between DTC patients with and without remission.<p clas...

Introduction: Bariatric surgery (BS) candidates display several nutritional deficiencies that can aggravate after surgery. Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors with several disturbed metabolic pathways. Therefore, individuals with MS submitted to BS are probably more prone to nutritional deficiencies.Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of nutritional deficiencies and eventual differences between BS candidates with and wit...

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has effective results on weight loss, which should result from fat mass loss and efforts should be made to preserve lean mass. Few studies have evaluated body composition (BC) changes after SG for periods >2 years.Objective: To investigate the impact of SG on weight and BC, comparing by gender.Materials and methods: Retrospectively, databases of patients who underwent SG between 2011 and 2013...

Introduction: The diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome is often challenging considering that none of the used laboratory tests has an ideal diagnostic accuracy. The complexity of the diagnosis increases in cyclic disorder, which is characterized by repeated episodes of cortisol excess followed by periods of normal cortisol secretion.Case report: A 32-year-old woman with history of arterial hypertension and obesity presented with weight gain, hirsutism, a...

Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and prediabetic states (pre-DM) are well known risk factors for stroke. Admission blood glucose level and its control during hospital stay, help predicting arterial recanalization after thrombolysis and middle and long term prognosis. We analysed recurrence, mortality and nosocomial infectious complications in DM, pre-DM and patients without previous or newly diagnosed DM or pre-DM.Methods: Descriptive analysis in con...

Introduction: Fat-free mass has a functional significance in aging. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of underweight in a Portuguese population of centenarians and their relationship with dehydration or sarcopenia.Methods/design: Anthropometric data were obtained using standard procedures from 252 centenarians (100.26±1.99 years), 77.8% women (W). Body composition was assessed by tetrapolar bioimpedance. It was considered de...

Introduction: Gestational diabetes (GD) is associated with a significantly higher risk of perinatal complications. It has been suggested that third-trimester (3thT) foetal abdominal circumference (fAC) determination is an important predictor of macrossomia and large for gestational age (LGA).Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between the 3thT fAC percentile with birthweight (BW) and adverse neonatal outc...

Introduction: The need to fast for the determination of lipid profile has been discussed in the past years, for several reasons – i) most of the day time is spent in a postprandial state; ii) the lipid concentrations seem to be only slightly affected by a normal meal; both fasting and postprandial can predict cardiovascular risk.Aim: Determine the influence of normal food intake on the lipid profile of diabetic patients.Method...