Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. So far, there is limited evidence about the consequences of Sars-CoV-2 infection on women’s reproductive health.Aim: To determine the effects of Sars-CoV-2 infection on women’s reproductive health.Methods: We created an anonymous survey about reproductive health and shared it with women of reproductive age between May 2022 and ...

Introduction: It is well documented that adrenal tumor tissue is responsive to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) as well as to luteinizing hormone (LH) with both hormones sharing a similar physiological role and a mutual receptor.Objective: The objective of our study was to assess the adrenal steroid response to acute, exogenous hCG stimulation in patients with adrenal incidenatalomas (AI) and for the first time, in a healthy control group.<p class=...

Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and mental health disturbances have been identified as cardiovascular risk factors.Objectives: To determine the effects of Sars-CoV-2 infection on PMS and mental health.Methods: An anonymous survey about reproductive and mental health was shared with women of reproductive age between May and December, 2022. All women used their menstrual cycle (MC) diary while filling out the survey. Surveys ...

Introduction: The prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas (AI) and renal cysts increase with age. Depending on the study population age and sex, on average, both are prevalent with about 8 to 10% in subjects older than 50 years of age.Aim: We aimed to investigate the co-occurrence of AI and simple renal cysts.Methods: Our study included 970 subjects, 494 with AI – all evaluated in single centre, and 476 control group (CG) patien...