From a distrust of authorities to language and cultural barriers, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare some uncomfortable facts about treating some of the most vulnerable populations. Caregivers and healthcare professionals need to be acutely aware of how to deal with these patients by overcoming several obstacles from language barriers to accepted cultural norms. Last...
Previous research on this topic has been limited to white populations Asian, Hispanic, and Black people with diabetes differ in their development of complications like kidney failure and heart disease depending on their disease profile, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Disparities in diabetes research, treatment,...
Poor social conditions caused by systemic racism contribute to health disparities in people with diabetes, according to a paper published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Minorities are disproportionately affected by diabetes because of poor social conditions that contribute to negative health outcomes such as poverty, unsafe housing, lack of access to healthy food and safe physical activity, and inadequate employment...
Variants in genes that mediate fibroblast growth factor 21 – a hormone secreted by the liver that acts to regulate the body’s response to starvation – have for the first time been linked to severe insulin resistance, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Researchers led by Stephen Stone,...
As childhood obesity becomes an “epidemic within an epidemic,” new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics echoes Endocrine Society recommendations on bariatric surgery for severely obese young people. Aside from reducing their weight, these procedures could benefit young people well into adulthood. Improved access to bariatric surgery is “urgently needed” for the severely obese...
Mild thyroid abnormalities affect up to one in five women with a history of miscarriage or subfertility which is a prolonged time span of trying to become pregnant, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Thyroid disorders are common in women of reproductive age. Although the prevalence of thyroid disorders in pregnancy are well understood,...
One of the biggest obstacles to medical research is the lack of a truly representative population in clinical trials. For his ENDO Online 2020 session, “Minority Participation in Research: Considerations of Urgency and Strategy,” James R. Gavin III, MD, PhD, will discuss needed steps researchers can take to ensure clinical trials are representative of all...
Updated recommendations to establish normal estradiol reference ranges have been released in a new report from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). The report is based on a symposium called “Workshop on Normal Reference Ranges for Estradiol in Postmenopausal Women,” that was held in September 2019, in Chicago, Ill., and featured 28 presentations. The Endocrine...
One of the biggest obstacles to medical research is the lack of a truly representative population in clinical trials. For his ENDO Online 2020 session, “Minority Participation in Research: Considerations of Urgency and Strategy,” James R. Gavin III, MD, PhD, will discuss needed steps researchers can take to ensure clinical trials are representative of all...
