Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Phthalates are suspected to influence thyroid function in epidemiologic and experimental animal studies. The aim of the study was to investigate the ability of primary human thyroid cell cultures to metabolise phthalates and a possible concentration-dependent response of phthalates on thyroglobulin (Tg) secretion.Methods: Human thyrocytes obtained from thyroidectomies were cultured to confluent monolayers. These were exposed to DEHP in conc...

Background: Over the last 60 years body composition of young people have changed towards increased fatness. Whole body fat percentage (%BF) derived from dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans are (although often not available) widely recognized as a better measure of fatness than BMI.Objective: We aimed to provide reference materials for %BF of healthy Danish children evaluated by skinfold measurements and DXA and to compare sensitivity and specifi...