Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is a pathology that has a great global impact on public health and its association with osteoporosis in this group of patients, however there are few regional descriptions.Methods: retrospective, descriptive and longitudinal study. Documentary data collection applying validated densitometric criteria as well as the epidemiological characteristics of the population. Tabulation and anal...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is an important comorbidity during the course of COVID-19. However, the impact of blood glucose control on the degree of medical interventions required and on mortality in patients with COVID-19 remains uncertain.Methods: Single-center retrospective study of 306 cases of COVID-19, of which 43 had pre-existing type 2 diabetes for 6 months. Qualitative variables were assessed using the Chi-squ...

Background: Study the frequency of thyroid, adrenal, and gonadal dysfunction in HIV-infected patients and correlate them with CD4 cell count levels. Design: Cross-sectional study of 760 HIV-infected adults. in the period from January 2016 to December 2018.Methodology: Free T3, free T4, TSH, Cortisol, FSH, LH, testosterone and estradiol were estimated by the radioimmunoassay method. Hormone levels and their correlation wi...

Introduction: Patients undergoing thyroidectomy could be subject to osteoporosis, therefore, we evaluated the potential for fractures among 123 men and 134 controls from a South American hospital between 1999-2018.Materials and methods: The influence of thyroidectomy on the incidence of fractures was evaluated using basic methods of analysis. In the primary analysis, the frequency of fractures in the operated cases was d...