Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: COVID-19 is a potentially serious disease with a high case fatality. At present no specific drug has been shown to be effective and safe in treating it. Recently, evidence suggests that higher levels of vitamin D protect against this infection. However, published studies on this subject are limited. The aim of this work was to investigate an association between hypovitaminosis D and SARS-CoV-2 infection.Methods: This was an analytical cross...

Introduction: Pituitary deficiency, or hypopituitarism, is defined by insufficient synthesis or secretion of one or more anterior pituitary hormones. These hormones, including growth hormone, are considerably involved, directly and indirectly, in several metabolisms such as hepatic, carbohydrate, lipid metabolisms and the regulation of protein synthesis. The objective of this study was to study the clinical and biological profiles of patients followed for anterior pituitary in...