Impact of COVID-19 in nutritional and functional status of survivors admitted in intensive care units during the first outbreak. Preliminary results of the NUTRICOVID study.

Background & Aims: COVID-19 patients present a high hospitalization rate with a high mortality risk for those requiring intensive care. When these patients have other comorbid conditions and older age, the risk for severe disease and poor outcomes after ICU admission are increased. The present work aims to describe the preliminary results of the ongoing NUTRICOVID study about the nutritional and functional status and the quality of life of adult COVID-19 survivors after ICU discharge, emphasizing the in-hospital and discharge situation of this population.

Real-life study of the effectiveness of a high calorie and high protein formula in the maintenance and improvement of nutritional state in patients with an indication of long-term enteral nutrition.

Unlabelled: The selection of the most appropriate formula in long-term home enteral nutrition is a controversial issue. Our objective was to study a high protein hypercaloric enteral nutrition formula in patients with long-term feeding (180 days).

Methods: Prospective observational multicenter real-life study with high-protein hypercaloric formula (2kcal/ml and 20% protein).

Implication of gestational diabetes treatment on maternal weight gain and low neonatal weight: a large retrospective cohort study.

Objective: the treatment for gestational diabetes is based on diet, and this may modify maternal weight gain. The limited maternal weight gain is related to newborns with small weight for their gestational age (SGA), and many studies have found an increase of SGA in women with gestational diabetes (GD), but the reason for this is not clear. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of gestational diabetes treatment on maternal weight gain and neonatal weight.

[Use of 18F-FDG-positron emission tomography in presurgical evaluation of nonspecific or suspectious adrenal masses in non-oncologic patients].

Background And Objective: Our purpose was to assess the utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) in pre-surgical characterization of adrenal masses. These masses were incidentally discovered in non-oncologic patients or during the study of endocrine hormone overproduction. These nodular lesions showed nonspecific or suspicious radiological features in the imaging tests routinely performed (CT and/or MRI).

[Non-alcoholic fatty liver in children and adolescents with excess weight and obesity].

Basis And Objective: Hepatic steatosis, also known as non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), is the most frequent liver disease in obese children. Due to an increase in infantile obesity, it is experiencing a significant increment in incidence. Our objetives are: Estimate the prevalence of NAFL in children with excess weight and obesity using the glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT) value as a biochemical test and an abdominal ultrasound, and correlate the presence of hepatic steatosis with various anthropometric and biochemical parameters.

[The X of dyslipemias].

Patients with cholestatic diseases can present secondary hypercholesterolemia, as a result of the accumulation of lipoprotein X (Lp-X); an abnormal LDL form, considered as the biochemical parameter more sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of cholestasis intra or extrahepatic cholestasis. The aim of this clinical communication is to illustrate this association. A 54-year-old male with severe cholestatic liver disease which in turn presents a progressive total cholesterol rise and LDL with presence of lipoprotein X.

Hyperuricemia and metabolic syndrome in children with overweight and obesity.

Objective: To study the prevalence of hyperuricemia in children with overweight or obesity and analyze the relation with metabolic syndrome and the diseases that define it.

Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional prevalence study in 148 children recruited from pediatric endocrinology consultation, with overweight or obesity (12±3 years, 48% boys, BMI 31.8±6.

[Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in a population of obese children and adolescents].

Introduction: Childhood obesity is a major and increasing health problem for society because it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Thus, when obese children become obese adults, effects on their health and life expectation may be devastating.

Objectives: 1) To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a child population with obesity.