Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In the whole world normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism (NC HPT) is an emerging entity and a growing problem. This disease is characterized by high levels of intact parathyroid hormone with normal total or ionized serum calcium. Our aim is to analyze its clinical and biological profile and its etiologies.Subjects and methods: We have studied 18 subjects with NC HPT. They all had routine analyses, plasma calcium and phosphorous, and assessment ...

Introduction: Vitamin D (Vit D) is known for its action on bone metabolism. But recently more ubiquitous actions have been discovered. Vit D deficit is now considered as a world health problem because of it frequency and its consequences. Vit D deficiency seems to be involved in diabetes mellitus, and in autoimmune, neoplastic and cardio-metabolic diseases. The aim of our study was to analyze the incidence of cardio-metabolic diseases in a group of patients with vitamin D defi...

Introduction: Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is a common disease prevailing in females (F). Male (M) forms are rare and their impact on the body is less studied than in females. Our aim is to see if male HPT is more or less aggressive than the female one.Subjects and methods: It is a retrospective study that took in account 62 HPT (46F, 16M) over a period of 7 years (2005–2012). All were questioned, examined, and had routine analyses, biological assessme...