Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal crisis and death still occur frequently in people with adrenal insufficiency, despite interventions being developed to prevent this. Interventions focus on increasing patients’ knowledge of their medication, their condition, and the action to take during acute stress. It is not known why the application of this knowledge does not happen during times of need. Behaviour change models/frameworks can aid the understanding of this knowledge gap. We performed a systema...

Due to remarkable improvements in treatment and supportive care over the past several decades, survival rates for childhood cancer currently exceed 85%. Nevertheless, survivors exposed to cranial radiotherapy (CRT) are at particularly high risk for long-term morbidity, such as endocrine insufficiencies, metabolic complications and cardiovascular morbidity. Research report that 40-50% of survivors will develop an endocrine disorder over their lifetime. Deficiencies of one or mo...