Endocrine Abstracts

During the warmest days reported in Wales and the United Kingdom recently, we have seen severe hyponatraemia phenomena in this part of the world. Water intoxication causes acute hyponatraemia when the sodium concentration of the blood falls too low due to prolonged sweating combined with excessive fluid consumption. Although primary polydipsia is found in a broad range of individuals including those with mental disorders, and healthy persons, as well as athletes who run marath...