Macarena Alpañés,Elena Fernández-Durán,Héctor F Escobar-Morreale
Macarena Alpañés
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a mainly hyperandrogenic disorder and is possibly the most frequent endocrinopathy in premenopausal women. Androgen excess is the primary defect in PCOS, because ovarian theca cells secrete increased amou...
Eirini Kyrana,Sarah Briggs,Anil Dhawan
Eirini Kyrana
Cachexia is a metabolic syndrome that manifests with excessive weight loss and disproportionate muscle wasting. It is related to many different chronic diseases, such as cancer, infections, liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cardiac...
Aline Sardinha,Antonio E Nardi
Aline Sardinha
Metabolic syndrome (MS) seems to be associated with both depression and increased cardiovascular risk. This article emphasizes the most relevant findings on the link between MS and psychological cardiovascular risk factors, focusing on the ...
Sleep apnea in acromegaly: a review on prevalence, pathogenetic aspects and treatment [0.03%]
肢端肥大症睡眠呼吸暂停的病因及治疗综述
Maria Vittoria Davì,Andrea Giustina
Maria Vittoria Davì
Sleep apnea syndrome is a common complication of acromegaly with a negative impact on quality of life and survival. Obstructive sleep apnea is the prevailing form and is characterized by recurrent episodes of apnea and hypopnea owing to the...
Filomena Cetani,Claudio Marcocci
Filomena Cetani
Parathyroidectomy is currently the only curative treatment for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). There are few alternative treatment options in patients who are ineligible for, or unwilling to undergo, surgery and those in whom parathyroi...
Positron emission tomography/computed tomography in patients treated for differentiated thyroid carcinomas [0.03%]
分化型甲状腺癌患者的正电子发射/X线计算机体层摄影术检测结果分析
Luca Giovanella
Luca Giovanella
Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) generally has a favorable prognosis; however, the chance of a recurrence in patients with DTC is 20%, and 8% of patients with recurrence will subsequently die of the disease. After thyroid remnant ablatio...
Fibrillin-3 in the fetal ovary: can it contribute to polycystic ovary syndrome? [0.03%]
胎儿卵巢中的纤连蛋白-3：它能参与多囊卵巢综合征吗？
David H Abbott
David H Abbott
Evaluation of: Hatzirodos N, Bayne RA, Irving-Rodgers HF et al. Linkage of regulators of TGF-β activity in the fetal ovary to polycystic ovary syndrome. FASEB J. 25(7), 2256-2265 (2011). Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a prevalent hypera...
Henrik Oster
Henrik Oster
Evaluation of: Levandovski R, Dantas G, Fernandes LC et al. Depression scores associate with chronotype and social jetlag in a rural population. Chronobiol. Int. doi:10.3109/07420528.2011.602445 (2011) (Epub ahead of print). It has long bee...
Devesh Sennik,Fahad Ahmed,David Russell-Jones
Devesh Sennik
Incretin-based therapies represent a new and innovative treatment modality in the management of Type 2 diabetes. Their therapeutic actions address many of the key metabolic defects in the pathophysiology of diabetes. Incretin hormones augme...
Insulin degludec: a novel ultra-long-acting basal insulin for use in Type 1 and 2 diabetes [0.03%]
德谷胰岛素：治疗1型和2型糖尿病的新型超长效基础胰岛素
Luigi F Meneghini,Bresta Miranda-Palma
Luigi F Meneghini
The prevalence of diabetes, a chronic disease that currently poses a significant health burden in both developed and developing countries, is expected to increase significantly over the foreseeable future. In Type 1 diabetes, insulin replac...