Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In normal subjects GH is a hyperglycemic hormone as opposed to insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1). Active acromegaly is associated with insulin resistance (IR) and glucose intolerance although both GH and IGF1 are elevated. Our objective was to assess whether GH, IGF1 or both are risk factors for IR and glucose intolerance in acromegaly.Methods: Basal serum IGF1 and GH, glucose and insulin during an oral glucose tolerance test were measure...

Introduction and objective: This study aims to report if hormone therapy modifies sleep architecture and dreams in menopausal women. Women with no hormone therapy for flushes usually present sleep deprivation and daily sleepiness as a result of nocturnal arousals. Estrogen and progesterone brain receptors can influence memory and cognition processes. Dreams modulators are cognition, socio-cultural factors, personality and brain physiology (REM/NREM percents, circadian influenc...

Background: There is a large agreement that most of the incidentally discovered, clinically mute adrenal masses are incidentalomas - non-functioning tumours, which have to be explored in order to differentiate the adrenal carcinoma.Material and methods: We studied the prevalence and characteristics of clinically mute adrenal tumours and the evolution of adrenal incidentalomas, with the approval of the local Ethical Committee, in 123 patients with adrenal...