Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: An atypical manifestation of disease combined with inconsistent results of examination, long history of multiple past health care services without effect requires to consider factitious disorders.Case report: A 46 year-old woman was suffering from episodes of severe hypokalemia (K+ 1.9 - 3.4 mmol/l (ref. 3.5-5.1 mmol/l) and hypertensive crises up to 240/145 mm Hg for 4 years. She stated that there was no clear provoking factor for these epi...

Introduction: Previous studies reported significant associations of steroid hormones with anthropometric parameters including body-mass-index (BMI) and waist circumference, as well as with some metabolic parameters such as triglycerides.Methods: 48 reproductive age males (age 18–49) were included in the study (27 obese individuals, 12 persons with excess body weight, 9 normal weight controls). We have examined the association between circulating st...