According to a new guideline from the European Society of Endocrinology, patients with obesity should be routinely tested for thyroid function. However, testing for other endocrine-related conditions should be guided by the presence of symptoms. The endocrine system and obesity can have a push-pull relationship. Some endocrine disorders — such as hypothyroidism and Cushing’s syndrome...
Join Endocrine Society members Shanna Swan, PhD; Jessie Buckley, PhD; and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, October 29 at 1pm ET for the first webinar in a new series, Generation Chemical: How Environmental Exposures Affect Reproductive Health and Development. Brought to you by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and the University of California, San Francisco...
While the health risks linking tobacco use by pregnant woman has been long understood, vaping presents a new frontier. A recent mouse study from the Journal of the Endocrine Society appears to show that there are some definite ill effects of e-cigarettes and the health of the offspring. We’ve known for decades about the health...
Blood tests could replace menstrual periods as a gauge for when a women is nearing menopause, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study found measuring levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) can predict when a woman’s final menstrual period will occur. AMH serves as an indicator...
Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), even at environmentally low doses, disrupts the preovulatory luteinizing hormone (LH) surge and leads to abnormal estrous cycle and folliculogenesis, according to a study recently published in Endocrinology. This disruption is reversible following adult exposure, but it persists into adulthood after neonatal exposure. Researchers led by David Lopez-Rodriguez, MSc, at the neuroendocrinology...
Treating patients with 46,XY differences of sex development (DSD) will require interdisciplinary healthcare teams trained to care for patients and their families, according to a paper recently published in Endocrine Reviews. The review, by Amy B. Wisniewski, of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, et al., points out that DSD are a heterogenous group of congenital...
For the fifth year in a row, Endocrine News spoke with editors from Endocrine Society journals to get the scoop on the top endocrine discoveries of 2019. Here is part 7 of Eureka! 2019. Former Journal of the Endocrine Society associate editor and soon-to-be editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Paul M....
For the fifth year in a row, Endocrine News spoke with editors from Endocrine Society journals to get the scoop on the top endocrine discoveries of 2019. Here is part 6 of Eureka! 2019. Journal of the Endocrine Society associate editor Bülent O. Yildiz, MD, professor at Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey,...
Join Endocrine Society members Shanna Swan, PhD; Jessie Buckley, PhD; and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, October 29 at 1pm ET for the first webinar in a new series, Generation Chemical: How Environmental Exposures Affect Reproductive Health and Development. Brought to you by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and the University of California, San Francisco...
