Endocrine Today Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Endocrine Today.

Table of Contents

• Experts skeptical of compounding pharmacy practices
• ‘Fit to Serve’ Act aims to reduce obese military recruits
• Campaign to End Obesity: Prevention yields long-term savings
• CPAP improved glucose in patients with prediabetes, sleep apnea
• Interchangeability of name brand vs. generic levothyroxine questionable
• NIH project aims to improve, preserve insulin production
• NIH trial aims to delay, prevent type 1 diabetes
• Researchers assess multiple vitamin D doses in healthy breast-fed infants
• Study examines ethnic differences in metabolic risk factors, incident CHD
• When patients don’t care about their diabetes care Michael Kleerekoper, MD, MACE
• Hypertension is nothing to sneeze at Ronald Tamler, MD, PhD, MBA
• Heeding the call for action against diabetes, obesity Aaron Cypress, MD, PhD, MMSc
• When not to biopsy a hypervascular thyroid nodule Stephanie L. Lee, MD, PhD, ECNU
• Acromegaly associated with negative effects on trabecular bone
• Air pollution could increase children’s risk for insulin resistance
• CAC score predicted all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes
• Calcium intake may protect against mortality among women
• Childhood ADHD linked to obesity in adult men
• Depression linked to time of first severe hypoglycemic episode
• Distal forearm fractures at young age increases risk for fragility fractures in men
• Early maternal smoking linked to daughters’ risk for obesity, diabetes
• Exercise training reduced central adiposity, HbA1c
• Fish oil increased adiponectin in humans
• Short stature genes identified in children
• Gestational diabetes, maternal weight and race increased fetal growth
• GLP-1 reduced endothelial dysfunction in type 1 diabetes
• Graves' disease, toxic nodular goiter associated with increased risk for mortality
• Greater improvements in HbA1c, body weight with canagliflozin vs. sitagliptin
• High sodium levels persist in processed, restaurant foods
• Hyperthyroidism increased risk for all-cause mortality, circulatory disorders
• Hypothyroidism increased mortality risk in patients with congestive HF
• Insurance savings incentive spurred walking among obese enrollees
• Management of menstrual problems difficult in disabled adolescents
• Marijuana use led to lower fasting insulin levels
• Obesity may increase risk for C. difficile
• Patient education necessary to improve management of VVA
• Perfluoroalkyl chemicals linked to hyperuricemia in children
• Physical activity improved sleep in women with vasomotor symptoms
• Rapid decline in ovarian cancer rates coincides with decreased hormone therapy use
• Sodium, fluid restriction unnecessary for acute decompensated HF
• Survey: Postmenopausal women prefer vaginal tablets to other therapies
• Teriparatide/denosumab superior to monotherapy for increased BMD
• Thyroid hormones closely related to cognition in adults
• VTE prevention may be unnecessary in bariatric surgery patients
• Weight gain influenced impulsive behavior
• Cardiovascular fitness in middle-aged men reduced cancer risk, mortality
• Adult endometrial cancer risk possibly linked to childhood BMI, height
• Experts forecast increased obesity-related dementia in England
• Higher doses of vitamin D recommended for preterm infants
• Lack of sleep linked to poor diets in children
• Lurasidone lowered rates of weight, metabolic changes in bipolar depression
• Metreleptin improved metabolic parameters in children with lipodystrophy
• Preschool obesity linked to safety of neighborhood, distance to parks
• Reduction in portion sizes led to day-long reductions in energy intake
• Lorcaserin: New agent in the obesity armamentarium James R. Taylor, PharmD, CDE