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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Prepubertal onset of slipped capital femoral epiphysis associated with hypothyroidism: a case report and literature review

Saori Kadowaki, Tomohiro Hori, Hideki Matsumoto, Kaori Kanda, Michio Ozeki, Yu Shirakami, Norio Kawamoto, Hidenori Ohnishi and Toshiyuki Fukao

Published on: 18 September 2017
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Clinical characteristics of adrenal crisis in adult population with and without predisposing chronic adrenal insufficiency: a retrospective cohort study

Masahiro Iwasaku, Maki Shinzawa, Shiro Tanaka, Kimihiko Kimachi and Koji Kawakami

Published on: 11 September 2017
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Primary hyperparathyroidism caused by enormous unilateral water-clear cell parathyroid hyperplasia

Georgios Boutzios, Helen Sarlanis, Anna Kolindou, Antigoni Velidaki and Theodore Karatzas

Published on: 9 September 2017
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Awareness and practices regarding eye diseases among patients with diabetes: a cross sectional analysis of the CoDiab-VD cohort

Lazaros Konstantinidis, Tania Carron, Eva de Ancos, Léonie Chinet, Isabelle Hagon-Traub, Emilie Zuercher and Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux

Published on: 7 September 2017
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Prolonged preoperative treatment of acromegaly with Somatostatin analogs may improve surgical outcome in patients with invasive pituitary macroadenoma (Knosp grades 1–3): a retrospective cohort study conducted at a single center

Lian Duan, Huijuan Zhu, Bing Xing and Feng Gu

Published on: 6 September 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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James Mockridge, BioMed Central

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

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