Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Despite available evidence for a relationship between bone health and obesity, the results of clinical trials remain conflicting. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study to analyze possible associations between waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and body weight (BW) with bone health in postmenopausal women.Materials and Methods: The study included 84 women from Northeastern Bulgaria. Their mean age was 60.54±7.07 years,...

We report three generations of a family with MEN-2 A characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance and virtually 100% penetrance.The proband, 35-year-old man, was diagnosed and operated for pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with lymph node metastasis in 2009. His mother turned out to be operated for bilateral pheochromocytoma at the age of 47 (in 1994) and had had a thyroid nodule. She died at the age of ...