Endocrine Abstracts

ObjectivesThere is a paucity of real-world studies analyzing comorbidities, lab testing and treatment patterns of patients with chronic hypoparathyroidism (cHP). This study describes a large cohort of cHP patients identified using a diagnosis-based approach from a US claims database.MethodsThis retrospective study was conducted using a large (130 million individuals) claims database (HealthVerity Closed Payer...

ObjectivesThere is a paucity of real-world studies on the clinical burden and practice patterns associated with chronic hypoparathyroidism (cHP). This study assesses the comorbidities, treatment and lab testing patterns in cHP patients identified using surgery-based criteria.MethodsThis was a retrospective study conducted using a large (130 million individuals) US claims database (HealthVerity Closed Payer Cl...

Introduction: The HypoparaNet database includes 509 patients (110 men and 399 women) with chronic hypoparathyroidism (cHP), recruited and followed in 20 clinical centers in Italy from 2014 onwards. cHP etiology included 363 post-surgical cases (71.3%), 78 idiopathic cases (15.3%), and 64 patients with a genetic background (12.6%). Bone health is an important clinical aspect to be considered in patients with cHP, whose skeleton is exposed both to the cHP-induced alteration of b...