BMC Endocrine Disorders

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Amar Agha and Aoife Garrahy review diagnosis of patients with suspected hypopituitarism and highlight the need to carefully consider which diagnostic test to use and to ensure results are interpreted within the wider clinical context

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Participation of adults with disorders/differences of sex development (DSD) in the clinical study dsd-LIFE: design, methodology, recruitment, data quality and study population

Robert Röhle, Katharina Gehrmann, Maria Szarras-Czapnik, Hedi Claahsen-van der Grinten, Catherine Pienkowski, Claire Bouvattier, Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, Anna Nordenström, Ute Thyen and Birgit Köhler

Published on: 18 August 2017
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Variations in diabetes remission rates after bariatric surgery in Spanish adults according to the use of different diagnostic criteria for diabetes

María R. Alhambra-Expósito, María J. Molina-Puerta, María I. Prior-Sánchez, Gregorio Manzano-García, Alfonso Calañas-Continente and María A. Gálvez-Moreno

Published on: 15 August 2017
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The role of bariatric surgery to treat diabetes: current challenges and perspectives

Chrysi Koliaki, Stavros Liatis, Carel W. le Roux and Alexander Kokkinos

Published on: 10 August 2017
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Long-term treatment outcomes of acromegaly patients presenting biochemically-uncontrolled at a tertiary pituitary center

John D. Carmichael, Michael S. Broder, Dasha Cherepanov, Eunice Chang, Adam Mamelak, Qayyim Said, Maureen P. Neary and Vivien Bonert

Published on: 4 August 2017
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Renal injury is accelerated by global hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha deficiency in a mouse model of STZ-induced diabetes

Romana Bohuslavova, Radka Cerychova, Katerina Nepomucka and Gabriela Pavlinkova

Published on: 3 August 2017

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Insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) cut-off values and the metabolic syndrome in a general adult population: effect of gender and age: EPIRCE cross-sectional study

Pilar Gayoso-Diz, Alfonso Otero-González, María Xosé Rodriguez-Alvarez, Francisco Gude, Fernando García, Angel De Francisco and Arturo González Quintela

Published on: 16 October 2013
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Extremely short duration high intensity interval training substantially improves insulin action in young healthy males

John A Babraj, Niels BJ Vollaard, Cameron Keast, Fergus M Guppy, Greg Cottrell and James A Timmons

Published on: 28 January 2009
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Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence – Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance?

Tommy Jönsson, Stefan Olsson, Bo Ahrén, Thorkild C Bøg-Hansen, Anita Dole and Staffan Lindeberg

Published on: 10 December 2005
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Pediatric reference intervals for thyroid hormone levels from birth to adulthood: a retrospective study

Klaus Kapelari, Christine Kirchlechner, Wolfgang Högler, Katharina Schweitzer, Irene Virgolini and Roy Moncayo

Published on: 27 November 2008
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The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolically healthy obesity in Europe: a collaborative analysis of ten large cohort studies

Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Marja-Liisa Nuotio, Sandra N Slagter, Dany Doiron, Krista Fischer, Luisa Foco, Amadou Gaye, Martin Gögele, Margit Heier, Tero Hiekkalinna, Anni Joensuu, Christopher Newby, Chao Pang, Eemil Partinen, Eva Reischl, Christine Schwienbacher…

Published on: 1 February 2014

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BMC Endocrine Disorders is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of endocrine disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

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Tim Shipley, BioMed Central

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Amar Agha, Beaumont Hospital
Stavros Liatis, Laiko Hospital
Abd Tahrani, University of Birmingham

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