Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) in remission show residual cardiometabolic derangements leading to increased cardiovascular risk. Impaired characteristics of gut microbiome (dysbiosis), such as richness, diversity and composition, have been associated with several cardiometabolic risk factors, including obesity, insulin resistance and atherosclerosis. Whether CS patients present with intestinal dysbiosis is currently unknown. Our study was aimed at evalu...

Introduction: To determine the risk of recurrence in DTC, different clinical factors have been used (presence of adenopathies, extrathyroid extension, histology\..). The objective was to examine whether the value of early postoperative Tg concentration may also predict long-term recurrence of DTC.Material and Methods: The study included 249 consecutive patients (78.3% women, mean age 50.72 ± 14.26 years) with DTC who were initially treated by total ...

Introduction: The number of transgender men and women who seek gender-affirming therapy is rapidly increasing worldwide. It is still a population at high risk for several morbidities. The Basque Country Gender Identity Clinic was created in 2009 to centralize their medical care in the region.Aim: To determine the proportion of transgender individuals in the Basque Country, the prevalence of several morbidities in this transgender population, their evolut...