Background and Objective Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome (NTIS) occurs in approximately
70% of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) s and has been associated with …

Many factors have contributed to rendering frailty an emerging, relevant, and very popular
concept. First, many pandemics that have affected humanity in history, including COVID-19 …

Introduction Although nonthyroidal illness syndrome is considered to be associated with
adverse outcome in ICU patients, the performance of thyroid hormone levels in predicting …

Background: Declines in nutrition status and adverse body composition changes frequently
occur in the critically ill. The objective of this cross‐sectional study was to examine the …

Conceptualized first in the field of geriatrics, frailty is a syndrome characterized by a
generalized vulnerability to stressors resulting from an accumulation of physiologic deficits …

IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor-I) is a peptide hormone, produced predominantly by the liver
in response to pituitary GH (growth hormone), which is involved in a wide variety of …

Objectives: Acute muscle wasting in the critically ill is common and causes significant
morbidity. In a novel human model of acute muscle wasting following cardiac surgery …

Methods: We performed a review of the metanalyses focused on NTIS in critically ill patients.
After a careful selection, we extracted data from four metanalyses, performed in different …

Background: Assessment of nutritional status in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is limited.
Computed tomography (CT) scans that include the first to fifth lumbar region completed for …

Purpose Prolactin is a highly versatile, multifunctional hormone synthesized and secreted by
lactotroph cells of the anterior pituitary. Its metabolic role has been extensively studied even …