Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Birt–Hogg–Dubé (BHD) syndrome has been reported to be associated with neoplastic conditions. Its association with thyroid carcinoma has been reported but remains controversial. Here we report the case of a BHD patient with a thyroid papillary carcinoma.Case report: A 47-year-old man presented with asymptomatic facial papules, which had been gradually increasing in number for 6 years. A biopsy was taken from a papule on the nose...

Background: Early screening and the treatment of glucose metabolism disorders could lower the risk of further complications. For this purpose it is important to identify the risk factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study was to determine the association between various hormonal factors and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes in the large prospective female E3N cohort study.Material and methods: The study included 83,799 French wo...