Endocrine Abstracts

We present the clinical case of a family with an initial diagnosis of AIP syndrome with AIP mutation and a secondary diagnosis of MEN syndrome associated because of a large MEN-1 gen deletion. A male patient 16 years old was evaluated because of delayed growth and pubertal development. He had headaches, nausea and vomits since seven years old. MRI showed: Large pituitary mass of 47.6×22×47.2 mm that erode the floor of the sella, extending into the left prepontine cis...

Introduction: Several studies have investigated a possible action of vitamin D metabolites on different lipid fractions but the possible mechanism by which they could act remain unknown, with varying results in observational and intervention studies.Objective: To study the relation between vitamin D levels and lipids levels.Methods: We undertook a population-based cohort study in Spain. At baseline (1996–1998), 1226 subjects w...