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Society for Endocrinology BES 2022

Harrogate, United Kingdom
14 Nov 2022 - 16 Nov 2022

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SfE BES is returning to Harrogate in 2022. Join with endocrine specialists from across the UK and beyond for the Society for Endocrinology's flagship meeting.

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Interventions for preventing adrenal crisis - behavioural insights

Shepherd Lisa , Ann Schmidtke Kelly , Hazlehurst Jonathan , Melson Eka , Dretzke Janine , Hawks Noel , Arlt Wiebke , Tahrani Abd , Swift Amelia , Carrick-Sen Debbie

Adrenal crisis and death still occur frequently in people with adrenal insufficiency, despite interventions being developed to prevent this. Interventions focus on increasing patients’ knowledge of their medication, their condition, and the action to take during acute stress. It is not known why the application of this knowledge does not happen during times of need. Behaviour change models/frameworks can aid the understanding of this knowledge gap. We performed a systema...

ea0086mte2 | Nurse | SFEBES2022

Endocrine complications after childhood cancer

Follin Cecilia

Due to remarkable improvements in treatment and supportive care over the past several decades, survival rates for childhood cancer currently exceed 85%. Nevertheless, survivors exposed to cranial radiotherapy (CRT) are at particularly high risk for long-term morbidity, such as endocrine insufficiencies, metabolic complications and cardiovascular morbidity. Research report that 40-50% of survivors will develop an endocrine disorder over their lifetime. Deficiencies of one or mo...