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Conditions and Diseases – Hormones, Nutrition and Metabolism

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This collection focuses on conditions related to hormones, nutrition and/or metabolism.

These comprehensive and concise factsheets are physician-reviewed and reflect the most current, evidence-based information. Relevant sources are provided for each fact sheet.

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A
  • AAT deficiency
  • Absent periods
  • Acromegaly
  • Acute adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Addison's disease
  • Adrenal cancer
  • Adrenal cortical carcinoma
  • Adrenal crisis
  • Adrenocortical carcinoma
  • Adrenoleukodystrophy X-linked
  • Alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency
  • Alpha-1 antiprotease deficiency
  • Androblastoma
  • Anemia, Iron-deficiency
  • Apoplexy
  • Arrhenoblastoma
  • Athletic amenorrhea
B
  • Benign breast masses
  • Breast cysts
  • Brittle diabetes
  • Bulimia
C
  • Cancer of the adrenal cortex
  • Cancer, thyroid
  • Canker sores
  • Celiac disease
  • Celiac sprue
  • CHI
  • Chronic cystic mastitis
  • Coma
  • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • Congenital hyperinsulinism—child
  • Congenital hypothyroidism
  • Constipation
  • Copper transport disease
  • Cretinism
  • Cushing disease
  • Cushing syndrome
  • Cystic disease
  • Cystic fibrosis
D
  • Dehydration
  • Delayed puberty
  • Delayed sexual maturation
  • Diabetes insipidus
  • Diabetes mellitus type 1
  • Diabetes mellitus type 2
  • Diabetes, gestational
  • Diabetes, type 1
  • Diabetes, type 2
  • Diabetic coma
  • Diabetic foot ulcer
  • Diabetic glomerulosclerosis
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Diabetic nephropathy
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • DKA
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Dysmenorrhea
E
  • Early puberty
  • Exercise-related menstrual dysfunction
F
  • Failure-to-thrive—adult
  • Familial hypercholesterolemia
  • Female athlete triad
  • FH
  • Fibrocystic disease
  • Folate deficiency
G
  • Galactorrhea
  • Galactosemia
  • Gastrinoma
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Gestational onset diabetes mellitus
  • Gilbert's syndrome
  • Glucose intolerance during pregnancy
  • Gluten-sensitive enteropathy
  • Glycogen storage diseases
  • Glycogenoses
  • Gout
  • Gouty arthritis
  • Graves' disease
H
  • Hashimoto thyroiditis
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Hirsutism
  • Homocystinuria
  • HPRT deficiency
  • Hyperandrogenic anovulation
  • Hypercalcemia
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Hypercortisolism
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hypocalcemia
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Hypoparathyroidism
  • Hypopituitarism
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency
I
  • IBS
  • Inherited metabolic diseases - overview
  • Insulin-resistant diabetes
  • Iron-deficiency anemia
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
J
  • Juvenile onset diabetes
      Juvenile onset diabetes
K
  • Ketoacidosis
  • Ketosis-Prone diabetes
L
  • Lactose intolerance
  • Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder
  • Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
  • Low blood glucose
  • Low blood sugar
  • Lysosomal storage disease
  • Lysosomal storage disease (glycoprotein storage diseases)
  • Lysosomal storage disease (MPS)
  • Lysosomal storage disease (mucopolysaccharidoses)
M
  • Mammary dysplasia
  • Menopause
      Menopause
  • Menstrual cramps
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Morbid obesity in adults
N
  • NAFLD
  • Nasopharyngeal cancer
  • Neonatal hyperinsulinism
  • Nephropathy, diabetic
  • Nerve damage of diabetes
  • Neuroendocrine tumors
  • Niemann-Pick disease
  • Nodular enlargement of the thyroid gland
  • Nonalchoholic fatty liver disease
  • Nonalchoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
  • Nontoxic nodular goiter
O
  • Obesity in adults
  • Oropharyngeal cancer
  • Overactive parathyroid
  • Overactive thyroid
P
  • Painful menstrual cycles
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Panhypopituitarism
  • PCO
  • PCOD
  • PCOS
  • Phenylketonuria
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • PHP
  • Pituitary insufficiency (hypopituitarism)
  • PKU
  • PMDD
  • PMS
  • Polycystic ovarian disease
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Polyfollicular ovarian appearance
  • Porphyria
  • Precocious puberty
  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • Premenstrual syndrome
      Premenstrual syndrome
  • Premenstrual tension syndrome
  • Prostatic carcinoma
R
  • Rickets
S
  • Schilder’s disease
  • Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor of the ovary
  • Sexual development: delayed
  • Simple goiter
  • Sporadic goiter
  • Stein Leventhal syndrome
  • Sudanophilic leukodystrophy
T
  • Testicular cancer
  • Throat cancer
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Triad
U
  • Underactive parathyroid
  • Underactive pituitary gland
W
  • Wernicke encephalopathy
  • Wilson's disease
X
  • X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  • X-linked copper deficiency
Z
  • Z-E syndrome
  • Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

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