Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Recent evidence suggest that environmental pollution may be involved in the worldwide increase of thyroid cancer (TC) incidence occurred over the last few decades. Indeed, some environmental pollutants, namely endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDCs), have been linked to endocrine system disruption, including thyroid dysfunction, and increased risk of TC. Several EDCs are known to be Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) due to their long half-life in the environment, ...

The thyroid differentiation score (TDS), calculated on the expression levels of 16 thyroid metabolism and function genes, was introduced by the Cancer Genome Atlas to characterize the differentiation status in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). TDS has been reported to be significantly lower in BRAF-like than in RAS-like PTCs. Nevertheless, scanty data are available about TDS in either other malignant cancers or in benign thyroid nodules. The aim of the present study was to an...

Background: As of December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly, therefore Governments from all over the world promoted a strategy of social confinement through a general lockdown in order to contain it. During the months following its introduction, many studies reported a significant increase in the incidence of idiopathic central precocious puberty (CPP) throughout several countries, especially in girls.Purpose: The aim of our study was to co...