Editorial
In this issue of Hormones, Dr. Dimitrios Linos has written a comprehensive review on adrenal incidentalomas, for which he proposes the more economical term “adrenalomas”. The management of these incidentally discovered, common masses has many controversies stemming from the fact that a minute proportion of them can be malignant …
Dimitrios A. Linos
The management of adrenalomas should include the following: 1. A detailed history and physical examination to detect subtle evidence of hormonal hypersecretion or the possibility of metastatic carcinoma…
Konstantinos Makrilakis, Nikolaos Katsilambros
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most costly and burdensome chronic diseases of our time and a condition that is increasing in epidemic proportions worldwide. Its complications are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and a tremendous economic burden to the society. Effective prevention programs are therefore urgently needed…
Leonidas H Duntas, Constantinos Parisis
The aim of this review is to provide an update on drug abuse by athletes, their mode of action and the technical difficulties of detection. The most common doping agents are the anabolic steroids (AS), testosterone derivatives modified to take advantage of the anabolic rather than the androgenic properties of the hormone…
Marios C Lazanas, Irene V Lambrinoudaki, Gerasimos A Douskas, Georgios A Tsekes, Maria N Chini, Evangelos K Georgiou
Data on body composition changes in HIV infected patients is sparse and controversial. The aim of this study was to assess body composition in asymptomatic HIV-infected men with normal body weight in comparison to healthy HIV-negative control men and to investigate possible body composition changes …
Gerasimos E Krassas, Fahrettin Kelestimur, Dragan Micic,Themistoklis Tzotzas, Theodoros Konstandinidis, MariaBougoulia, Christos Tsametis, Ramiz Colak, Jagoda Jorga, Zivka Kostic, Mirjana Pavlovic. The Balkan Group for the Study of Obesity
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and body mass index (BMI) distribution in people living in large territories of Greece, Serbia and Turkey. A cross-sectional multi-national epidemiological survey was designed on the basis of self-reported information on height and weight …
Ioannis G Habeos, Agathoklis Psyrogiannis, Venetsana Kyriazopoulou, A Psilopanagiotou, Athanasios G Papavassiliou, Apostolos G Vagenakis
Several authors have suggested a positive association between diabetes type 2 (DM2) and the C282Y and H63D mutations of the hereditary hemochromatosis gene but others have disputed it. There are also papers reporting an increased iron load in diabetes type 2 and a possible association with the pathogenesis of the disease …
Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis, Evangelia Zapanti, Maria-Helen Peridis, Panayiotis Ntavos, George Mastorakos
Pheochromocytoma, a neuroendocrine tumor, is often associated with hyperglycemia. To investigate the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms, five patients (3 women and 2 men, aged 49±2.5, mean±SD) with benign adrenal pheochromocytoma were studied with an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and the euglycaemic clamp technique …
Maria Maniati-Christidis, Fotini Psychou, Claire Nihoul-Fekete
A female infant with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia is described. Persistent euglycemia could not be achieved by diazoxide, somatostatin and frequent, low protein feeds. Preoperative localization of focal insulin hypersecretion by percutaneous pancreatic venous sampling allowed excision of only a small pancreatic portion which was followed by normalization of blood glucose levels …
Neoklis A. Georgopoulos, George A. Vagenakis, Apostolos L. Pierris
In an Orphic account of the constitutive mythology of the Eleusinian Mysteries, there occurs the relation of a remarkable tale of sacred obscenity. The Baubo affair is pivotal for a more in-depth understanding of the symbolism involved in the most awesome mysteric cult of the ancient Greek world …