Contents Osteoporosis


Vitamin D and Bone Health—Discussion Points Following the Recent Institute of Medicine Recommendations


Robert P Heaney, MD


Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Creighton University School of Medicine Recent Management Controversies in Osteoporosis


Susan M DeLange Hudec, MD1 and Pauline M Camacho, MD, FACE2


1. Endocrinology Fellow, Loyola University Medical Center; 2. Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Loyola University Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Center, Loyola University Medical Center


Male Endocrinology


The Role of Steroids in Endothelial Function in the Aging Male Antonio Aversa, MD, PhD,1 Silvia Migliaccio, MD, PhD3


Roberto Bruzziches, MD,2 and Andrea Lenzi, MD4


145 Davide Francomano, MD,2 Emanuela A Greco, MD,2


1. Senior Lecturer, Department of Experimental Medicine, Medical Pathophysiology Section, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome; 2. Research Fellow, Department of Experimental Medicine, Medical Pathophysiology Section, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome; 3. Researcher, Department of Health Sciences, Endocrinology Unit, Foro Italico University of Rome; 4. Full Professor, Department of Experimental Medicine, Medical Pathophysiology Section, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome


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Helen Vlassara, MD, and Gary E Striker, MD


Sodium–Glucose Co-transporter 2 Inhibition—A Novel Strategy for Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes


Luke Norton, PhD, Ralph A DeFronzo, MD and Muhammad A Abdul-Ghani, MD, PhD


Growth Hormone Treatment in Children Born Small for Gestational Age—Adult Height and Metabolic Consequences


Michelle L Klein, MD and Robert Rapaport, MD


Current Understanding and Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Children


Steven G Waguespack, MD and Gary L Francis, MD, PhD


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Anthony L McCall, MD, PhD, FACP


No More Heart Disease— Addressing Major Modifiable Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes


Claude K Lardinois, MD, FACP, MACN


Glucagon Testing in Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency


Kevin C J Yuen, MRCP(UK), MD


Developments in Digestive Tract Neuroendocrine Tumors and Pheochromocytomas/ Paragangliomas


Ioannis Ilias, MD and Karel Pacak, MD, PhD, DSc


The Hypothalamo–Pituitary– Adrenocortical Axis—The Role of Glucocorticoids in the Pathophysiology of Endocrine Disorders


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