
Pedro De Pablos-VelascoHospital Universitario "Doctor Negrín" · Endocrinology and Metabolism
Pedro De Pablos-Velasco
MD, PhD
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February 1986 - May 2016
Position
- Internal Resident
February 1981 - May 1985
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Publications (191)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men and the fifth leading cause of death from cancer. The possibility of sarcopenia being a prognostic factor in advanced PCa patients has recently become a subject of interest. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prognostic value of sarcopenia in advanced prostate carcinoma. A...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health problem worldwide that affects more than 10% of the Spanish population. CKD is associated with high comorbidity rates, poor prognosis and major consumption of health system resources. Since the publication of the last consensus document on CKD seven years ago, little evidence has emerged and few...
Hypertension in obese and overweight patients is associated with an elevated resting metabolic rate (RMR). The aim of this study was to determine whether RMR is reduced in hypertensive patients treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) and blockers (ARB). The RMR was determined by indirect calorimetry in 174 volunteers; 93 (46.5...
The study aimed to determine the levels of skeletal muscle Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2, the SARS‐CoV‐2 receptor) protein expression in men and women and assess whether ACE2 expression in skeletal muscle is associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity. The level of ACE2 in vastus lateralis muscle biopsies collected in previous s...
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La enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) es un importante problema de salud pública a nivel mundial afectando a mas del 10% de la población española. Se asocia a elevada comorbilidad, mal pronóstico, así como a un gran consumo de recursos en el sistema sanitario. Desde la publicación del último documento de consenso sobre ERC publicado hace siete...
The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether differences in body composition, pharmacological treatment and physical activity explain the increased resting metabolic rate (RMR) and impaired insulin sensitivity in hypertension. Resting blood pressure, RMR (indirect calorimetry), body composition (dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry), phys...
PurposeRecent data indicate that extended dosing intervals (EDIs) with lanreotide autogel 120 mg are effective and well-received among patients with acromegaly who have achieved biochemical control with monthly injections of long-acting somatostatin analogues (SSAs). We further evaluated the effectiveness of lanreotide autogel 120 mg delivered at E...
Background
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease in which health outcomes are related to decision making by patients and health care professionals.
Objective
This study aims to assess the effectiveness of internet-based multicomponent interventions to support decision making of all actors involved in the care of patients with T2DM i...
Rationale and Objectives
Sarcopenia is associated with adverse outcomes in clinical situations such as elderly population, in-hospital setting and oncologic patients. However, no direct measurement of muscular mass is routinely available for clinicians. The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between thenar musculature of the nondominan...
BACKGROUND
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease in which health outcomes are related to decision making by patients and health care professionals.
OBJECTIVE
This study aims to assess the effectiveness of internet-based multicomponent interventions to support decision making of all actors involved in the care of patients with T2DM i...
Aim
The ACROPRAXIS program aims to describe the management of acromegaly in Spain and provide guidance.
Methods
Ninety-three endocrinologists were organized into 13 panels to discuss the practical issues in managing acromegaly. Based on the key learnings, an online Delphi survey with 62 statements was performed, so those statements achieving conse...
Metformin has antidiabetic, anticancer, and prolongevity effects, but seems to interfere with aerobic training mitochondrial adaptations. The primary mechanism of action has been suggested to be the inhibition of mitochondrial complex I. Recent papers (Wang et al. and Cameron et al.), however, provide evidence to deny the hypothesis of a direct act...
This study aimed to determine whether the measured resting energy expenditure (REE) in overweight and obese patients living in a temperate climate is lower than the predicted REE; and to ascertain which equation should be used in patients living in a temperate climate. REE (indirect calorimetry) and body composition (DXA) were measured in 174 patie...
Sarcolipin (SLN) is a SERCAs uncoupling protein associated with exercise performance and lower adiposity in mice. To determine SLN protein expression in human skeletal muscle and its relationship with adiposity, resting energy expenditure (REE), and performance, SLN was assessed by Western blot in 199 biopsies from two previous studies. In one stud...
The loss of skeletal muscle mass with energy deficit is thought to be due to protein breakdown by the autophagy-lysosome and the ubiquitin-proteasome systems. We studied the main signaling pathways through which exercise can attenuate the loss of muscle mass during severe energy deficit (5500 kcal/day). Overweight men followed four days of caloric...
The flash glucose monitoring (FGM) system FreeStyle Libre® is a device that measures interstitial glucose in a very simple way and indicates direction and speed of glucose change. This allows persons with diabetes to prevent hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic events. Scientific evidence indicates that the system can improve glycemic control and quality...
Background:
Exercise and protein ingestion preserve muscle mass during moderate energy deficits.
Objective:
To determine the molecular mechanisms by which exercise and protein ingestion may spare muscle mass during severe energy deficit (5500 kcal/day).
Design:
Fifteen overweight, but otherwise healthy men, underwent a pre-test (PRE), caloric...
Background:
In the last decades, we have experienced an increase in the prevalence of obesity in western countries with a higher demand for bariatric surgery and consequently prolonged waiting times. Currently, in many public hospitals, the only criterion that establishes priority for bariatric surgery is waiting time regardless of obesity severit...
Obesity is a major health problem, and although caloric restriction and exercise are successful strategies to lose adipose tissue in obese individuals, a simultaneous decrease in skeletal muscle mass, negatively effects metabolism and muscle function. To deeper understand molecular events occurring in muscle during weight-loss, we measured the expr...
Objective:
PANORAMA, a nine-country cross-sectional type 2 diabetes study, investigated factors associated with quality of life (QoL), health status, and other patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Research design and methods:
Patients were randomly or consecutively selected from primary/secondary care. PROMs included the Audit of Diabetes-...
This study describes the development of a new questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with type 1 diabetes (the ViDa1 questionnaire) and provides information on its psychometric properties. For its development, open interviews with patients took place and topics relevant to patients' HRQoL were identified and ite...
Aim:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a progressive condition influences by many factors. Surgery usually produces hyperglycemia in the postoperative period, which leads to adverse clinical outcomes. Possible consequences of surgery on beta cell reserve have not been explored. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of surgery on the beta...
Aims:
This analysis aimed to evaluate efficacy and safety of empagliflozin in combination therapy in <65 y.o. patients, overweight/obese, and with uncontrolled T2DM.
Methods:
Pooled analysis from three phase-III trials, in <65 y.o. patients, with BMI 25-35kg/m(2), and HbA1c ≥8% at baseline. Patients (N=439) were randomized to placebo (n=138), em...
Aims:
To evaluate the impact of β-cell function on the efficacy of lixisenatide, a once-daily prandial glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Materials and methods:
In this post hoc analysis, patients from the Phase 3 GetGoal-M and GetGoal-S clinical trials randomized to lixisenatide 20μg once daily wer...
Aim:
To explore the frequency of hypoglycaemic episodes, their risk factors, and associations with patient-reported outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes enrolled in the PANORAMA cross-sectional study.
Methods:
Five thousand seven hundred and eighty-three patients aged ≥ 40 years with type 2 diabetes duration ≥ 1 year were recruited in nine...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease whose health outcomes are related to patients and healthcare professionals' decision-making. The Diabetes Intervention study in the Canary Islands (INDICA study) aims to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of educational interventions supported by new technology decision tools for type 2 d...
La enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) es un importante problema de salud pública que puede afectar en sus diferentes estadios a cerca del 10% de la población española y que supone una elevada morbimortalidad, así como un importante consumo de recursos al Sistema Nacional de Salud. Diez sociedades científicas involucradas en el manejo del paciente renal...
AimAddition of basal insulin or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists to oral agents is common in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) not achieving glycaemic goals. The EAGLE trial ClinicalTrials.gov(NCT01117350) compared safety and efficacy of insulin glargine and liraglutide in this population.Methods
This randomized, multinational, open-lab...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important global health problem, involving to 10% of the Spanish population, promoting high morbidity and mortality for the patient and an elevate consumption of the total health resources for the National Health System. This is a summary of an executive consensus document of ten scientific societies involved in t...
Despite the variety of therapeutic options for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, many patients fail to meet glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) targets. The relative contribution of postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) to overall HbA1c is estimated at 40 - 60%, with the effect of PPG on HbA1c being prominent in patients on basal insulin.The developm...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important global health problem, involving to 10% of the Spanish population, promoting high morbidity and mortality for the patient and an elevate consumption of the total health resources for the National Health System. This is a summary of an executive consensus document of ten scientific societies involved in t...
To compare the efficacy and safety of lixisenatide (LIXI), a once-daily prandial glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, as add-on to basal insulin (Basal+LIXI) versus once-daily rapid-acting insulin (Basal+RAI) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Data were extracted from five randomized controlled trials assessing the effic...
Few studies are available on quality of life and treatment satisfaction of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Both of them were the primary objectives of the PANORAMA (NCT00916513) study. Metabolic control, treatment patterns, and management by healthcare professionals were also evaluated.
This multicenter, cross-sectional, observationa...
In this study, we review the efficacy and safety limitations of insulin-dependent oral antidiabetic agents. In terms of efficiency, the main drawback of metformin, sulfonylureas, gliptins and -to a lesser extent-glitazones is durability. No drug per se is able to maintain stable blood glucose control for years. Metformin, sulfonylureas and gliptins...
Objectives
Few studies are available on quality of life and treatment satisfaction of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Both of them were the primary objectives of the PANORAMA (NCT00916513) study. Metabolic control, treatment patterns, and management by healthcare professionals were also evaluated.
Material and methods
This multicent...
Objective:
To provide an update on glycaemic control in European patients with type 2 diabetes based on data from the nine-country, cross-sectional PANORAMA study (NCT00916513).
Design:
Post-hoc analysis to report the number of patients achieving/not achieving glycaemic goal (HbA(1c) <7%).
Patients:
Patients were randomly or consecutively sele...
To determine if the muscle signalling response to a 30 s all-out sprint exercise is modulated by the exercise mode and the endocrine response, 27 healthy volunteers were divided in 2 groups that performed isokinetic (10 men and 5 women) and isoinertial (7 men and 5 women) Wingate tests. Blood samples and vastus lateralis muscle biopsies were taken...
To determine if there is a sex dimorphism in the skeletal muscle signaling response to sprint exercise, 17 men and ten women performed a 30-s Wingate test. Muscle biopsies were taken before, immediately after the exercise and at 30 and 120 min during the recovery period. Thr(172)-AMPKα, Ser(221)-ACCβ, Thy(705)-STAT3, Thr(202)/Thy(204)-ERK1/2 and Th...
Type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major cause of disability reaching epidemic proportions worldwide. The disease burden of T2DM is commonly characterised using health status measures, but few European-wide data are available concerning patients' views of their quality of life (QoL) and other patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Despite evidence sup...
This study was designed to determine whether sprint exercise activates signaling cascades linked to leptin actions in human skeletal muscle and how this pattern of activation may be interfered by glucose ingestion. Muscle biopsies were obtained in 15 young healthy men in response to a 30-s sprint exercise (Wingate test) randomly distributed into tw...
Background and aims: Apparently the Canary Islands suffer from the highest diabetes mortality rate in Spain. We did a pooled analysis of three prevalence studies carried out starting from the turn of the century. Methods: Pooled analysis of the following prevalence studies: "Guia," "Telde," and "CDC Canaries." The combined prevalence was standardiz...
Objective:
To determine the degree of control of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in a sample of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) attending Endocrinology and Nutrition Departments in Spain.
Material and methods:
An epidemiological, cross-sectional, multicenter and observational study involving 41 Departments of Endocrinology and Nutrition...
To determine the degree of control of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in a sample of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) attending Endocrinology and Nutrition Departments in Spain.
An epidemiological, cross-sectional, multicenter and observational study involving 41 Departments of Endocrinology and Nutrition in Spain. Each department selected p...
Results of studies on the prevalence of distal diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) are contradictory. Conventional methods used for the diagnosis of DPN in clinical practice have limited effectiveness. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of DPN in a population with long-standing diabetes (more than 10 years disease duration) by measuring vib...
The treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus requires overall control of the multiple risk factors usually found in these patients. Amongst these, avoidance of hypoglycemia and treatment of obesity, especially central obesity, is of utmost importance. Consequently, among the various physiopathological approaches to improve glycemic control that do not...
The treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus requires overall control of the multiple risk factors usually found in these patients. Amongst these, avoidance of hypoglycemia and treatment of obesity, especially central obesity, is of utmost importance. Consequently, among the various physiopathological approaches to improve glycemic control that do not...
Pioglitazone is an oral antidiabetic agent that decreases insulin resistance in adipose tissue, liver and muscles. This action is mediated by its link to a nuclear receptor called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma. By improving insulin sensitivity, hepatic glucose production decreases and glucose uptake increases in the peripheral ti...
The aim of this study was to estimate the current prevalence of Chronic Renal Insufficiency (RI) in ambulatory patients with type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) assisted in Endocrinology Departments all over Spain.
This was an observational, cross sectional, multicenter study. From each participant the following data were retrospective collected: demographic, a...
Background and objectiveThe aim of this study was to estimate the current prevalence of Chronic Renal Insufficiency (RI) in ambulatory patients with type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) assisted in Endocrinology Departments all over Spain.
Obesity has become a major public health problem in all western countries, and its prevalence is increasing. This condition is associated with a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease; furthermore, obesity is a risk factor for mortality.
To study the association of some prevalent diseases (diabetes mellitus...
To assess the degree of glycemic control and its associated factors in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) attended by primary care teams in Spain.
A cross-sectional multicenter study was carried out using a structured questionnaire in diabetic patients consecutively attended from January to August 2007. Three groups were assessed: patients with t...
Objetivos: Conocer qué proporción de las mujeres canarias posmenopáusicas con obesidad de grados II y III (índice de masa corporal [IMC] = 35) se encuentra por debajo del umbral de la pobreza y estudiar en esa misma población la prevalencia de diabetes mellitus, enfermedad tiroidea, obesidad, hipertensión arterial, enfermedad reumática inflamatoria...
Objetivo: Estimar el grado de control glucemico y los factores relacionados en pacientes con diabetes mellitus (DM) atendidos por equipos de atencion primaria de todo el territorio espanol. Material y metodos: Diseno transversal multicentrico, realizado a partir de un cuestionario estructurado aplicado a sujetos diabeticos atendidos consecutivament...
Adiponectin is a protein secreted by adipocytes. In obesity, adiponectin levels have been found to be reduced. Adiponectin has several biological effects that have been demonstrated in vitro. Some clinical trials have described an association between hypoadiponectinemia and cardiovascular disease. Hence the suggestion of considering it a feasible c...
Aim: To assess the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in the population older than 45 years assigned to Primary Care in Spain, and to evaluate whether the combination of both level of fasting glucose and central obesity could be useful to identify people with diabetes, IFG, IGT and insulin resistance (...
Emerging cardiovascular (CV) risk factors such as adiponectin, glycosilated hemoglobin, waist circumference and the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) level can aid CV risk stratification. It has been shown that classic factors alone are not sufficient to explain CV risk fully. The adiponectin level has been linked to insulin resistance, d...
Introduction and objectives
Emerging cardiovascular (CV) risk factors such as adiponectin, glycosilated hemoglobin, waist circumference and the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) level can aid CV risk stratification. It has been shown that classic factors alone are not sufficient to explain CV risk fully. The adiponectin level has been lin...