Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: A high percentage of patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) have malnutrition. The nutritional treatment in ALS is essential, affecting muscle strength, quality of life and survival.Objective: To describe the nutritional characteristics of patients evaluated in a specific nutritional Unit in patients with ALS during 3 years.Material and methods: A descriptive study of all patients diagnosed with A...

Introduction: Obesity and insulin resistance have been identified as risk factors for breast cancer and are associated with late-stage diagnosis and poor prognosis. Ghrelin is a unique gut-derived peptide that has major impact in energy homeostasis and weight regulation, with new emerging implications in tumorigenesis process, especially in hormone-dependent cancers.Aim: To evaluate the relationship between ghrelin, clinico-biological parameters of obesi...

Introduction: Bariatric surgery would end up with great alterations in homeostatic measures such as glucose and lipid metabolism and hormonal regulation, which of all are interweaved with some number of ways to each other. The hormonal modulation extands along a wide span starting from the change in gastrointestinal peptides, to the effect in insulin and other nutrient metabolism regulatory hormones and even the hormones establishing thyroid and calcium homeostasis. Secondary ...