Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Exertional heat illness (EHI) is an incapacitating and sometimes fatal phenomenon. It is associated with elevated core temperature (Tc), cardiovascular instability and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome. EHI-preventive guidelines recommend maintaining Tc ≤38 °C, an important thermoregulatory threshold above which vasomotor compensation plateaus and pronounced excursions in key pituitary and adrenal hormones occur. Copeptin, the C-terminal part o...