Endocrine Abstracts

Endocrine comorbidity is a hot issue in radiation medicine featuring a concomitant radiation injury of several endocrine glands.Objective: Establishing a link of vitamin D deficiency with thyroid and pancreatic disorders among the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) accident survivors.Results: A blind sample (n = 60) of subjects treated at the Radiation Endocrinology department in 2019 were selected for the study. St...

Introduction: Accident at the Chernobyl NPP (ChNPP) in Ukraine on the 26th of April, 1986 was followed by the intensive release of a wide range of radioactive elements with affinity to many endocrine tissues. The mentioned radioactive fallout resulted in both internal and external radiation exposure, among others, of the central endocrine structures of the human brain.Methods: We have conducted a retrospective analysis (20–25 years upon radiation ex...