Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, classic type is a connective tissue disorder, characterized by skin hyperextensibility, abnormal wound healing, and joint hypermobility, due to COL5A1 or COL5A2 genes mutations. Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 2A (MEN2A) is a syndrome defined by medullary carcinoma, phaeochromocytoma, hyperparathyroidism, and occasionally cutaneous lichen amyloidosis, because of mutations in RET proto-oncogene. COL5A</...

Background: World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders included neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone (nTSH) as one of the indicators for assessing iodine deficiency at a population level and as a monitoring tool in programs of iodine supplementation. A prevalence of nTSH concentrations in dry blood spots (DBS) above 5 mlU/l below 3% has been prop...

Iodine deficiency is the main cause of preventable mental retardation in children. Urinary iodine excretion is a marker of recent iodine intake and is used to monitor the iodine status of population. Iodine excretion in Lithuanian schoolchildren was previously investigated in 2001. The main objective of this study was to evaluate iodine excretion in children, ages 6–12, living in Vilnius, Lithuania.MethodsUrine samples were co...