Inferior petrosal sinus sampling and stimulation with CRH: 15 years of experience in a tertiary hospital.

Background: Inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) is indicated in the diagnosis of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent Cushing's syndrome (CS), especially when the results of the initial diagnostic tests are discordant.

Objective: To describe the patients who underwent this invasive functional test in a tertiary hospital.

Methods: This was an observational study of a retrospective cohort of patients with ACTH-dependent CS and IPSS between 2004 and 2019.

[Role of fermented beverages in the maintenance of weight loss].

Obesity is a very prevalent disease with multiple chronic complications that decrease or disappear after a small (5-10%) but maintained weight loss. Nevertheless, maintaining weight loss after the treatment is very difficult and it involves one of the biggest challenges to control this epidemic. Although the reasons that contribute to regain the lost weight are diverse and related to the biological response to caloric restriction and the lack of adherence to treatment, up to 20% of the patients are able to keep it off.

[Satisfaction with body image in a universitary population of the Comunidad de Madrid].

Objective: To evaluate anthropometric characteristics and satisfaction with self body image in a group of university students.

Material And Methods: 64 university students from 21 to 25 years old, 36 females and 28 males, were studied. Body composition was evaluated by anthropometric data and bioimpedance.