Endocrine Abstracts

Backgrounds: The rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity is one of the most challenging dilemmas facing endocrinologists all over the world today. The scale of the obesity problem has a number of serious consequences for individuals and for government health systems. The aim of our research was the evaluation of obesity and overweight prevalence in Minsk city population within the framework of the Campaign ‘Obesity As A Risk Factor of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus’<p c...

Background: MEN 2b is a highly penetrant disease with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. It includes medullary thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytomas, and multiple mucosal neuromata. The common feature of all of these tumors is a neuroectodermal origin. Although the clinical phenotype is present in all patients, individual manifestations have a variable presentation and are age dependent. Aim.: We report a case of a patient with possible MEN 2b ...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited disorder, characterized by a high predisposition to develop a wide spectrum of endocrine and nonendocrine tumors, mostly of parathyroids, endocrine pancreas, and anterior pituitary.Methods: Analysis of clinical and laboratory data, family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia.Results: A 19-year-old woman with autoimmune thyroiditis a...

Introduction & BackgroundA COVID-19 pandemic smashed the world not only by it`s severity, but also by the tremendous amount of comorbidities, many of them having autoimmune basis. Thyrotoxicosis as one of the above - could result either from SARS-CoV-2 directly infecting the thyroid gland, as described in other viral infections, or can develop due to immune overactivation during the severe viral load. Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a self-limiting inf...