Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction/objective: Elderly patients have a higher prevalence of hypernatremia. Previous studies suggested that impaired ADH secretion contributes to development of hypernatremia in the elderly. Copeptin is the C terminal part of the ADH precursor and is more stable in plasma than ADH. The aim of this study was to detect demographic and clinical characteristics of the elderly hypernatremic patient hospitalized in the internal medicine ward, and to increase the understandin...