Endocrine Abstracts

Approximately 20 percent of the world’s working population is working shifts. The shift working system that affects such a large population often causes circadian rhythm disturbances. These disorders adversely affect nutritional habits and quality, sleep patterns and quality, and body composition. The risk of chronic diseases, especially obesity and diabetes, increases due to the direct and indirect effects of disruption in the circadian rhythm. The aim of this study is ...

Introduction: Hyponatraemia is the commonest inpatient electrolyte disturbance, and its severity has been shown to correlate with in-patient mortality, length of stay, and use of hospital resources. Unfortunately, hyponatraemia goes frequently unrecognised. The purpose of this audit was to see how a tertiary health centre manages hyponatraemia and how patient journey is affected.Goals: To identify hyponatraemic patients in a tertiary centre in a 2-week t...

Aim: The association between thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid cancer has long been suggested, in addition whether and how the concurrent thyroid autoimmunity with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) affects clinicopathological features and prognosis is a matter of debate. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the laboratory data, cancer characteristics and prognosis of PTC patients with and without thyroid autoimmunity.Materials and Methods: Data of 2...