Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Hypoparathyroidism, a rare endocrine disorder characterised by low serum calcium due to low or insufficient parathyroid hormone levels, most commonly occurs post-surgery although can also occur due to predisposing genetic conditions or idiopathically. Hypoparathyroidism requires long-term medical management to minimise complications and detrimental impacts on health-related quality of life. Few real-world studies, particularly in the UK, have quantified healthcare ...

IntroductionThyroid dysfunction is the most common endocrine disorder in women of childbearing age, and is associated with menstrual irregularities, anovulation and infertility. Whether it is thyroid function and/or thyroid autoimmunity (AI) that affects functional ovarian reserve remains to be clarified.AimTo evaluate the association between functional ovarian reserve and thyroid AI in women with infertility...