Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with CHH and KS have eunuchoid body proportions of the skeleton compared to normal male subjects, characterized by tall stature, and reduced upper-to-lower segment ratio (U/l). Vice versa, steroids exposure deeply differs between CHH and KS at puberty, with both testosterone and estradiol being very low only in CHH. At present, body skeletal proportions comparison between CHH and KS is not available.Aim: To compare anthropom...

Background: AGHD is a recognized clinical entity, but symptoms are quite nonspecific; the lack of objective tools able to measure patients’ health status remains the main barrier in clinical monitoring and treatment.Aim: The MAGHD Study aims improving AGHD patients’ management through a Smartphone app (MAGHDApp) and a fit-watch integrated with a software framework able to merge daily data of patients’ well-being and physical activity with ...

Background: AGHD significantly impacts on metabolism, body composition and quality of life (QoL), including sexuality.AIM: To investigate the impact of a smartphone App on AGHD monitoring, especially QoL and comorbidities as well as on both body composition and biochemical parameters.Methodology: 83 AGHD patients were enrolled in this prospective, open-label, monocentric study (MAGHD Study) of 24-month duration. Patients were evalu...