Seasonality as a risk factor for deaths in Parkinson's disease.

Background: According to growing evidence, sleep disruption harms biological processes and circadian homeostasis. Diurnal motor symptom volatility in Parkinson's Disease (PD) has been extensively studied. Few studies examined seasonal variability in PD symptoms, some showing it and others not.

Case Report: Hyperandrogenism in Menopause.

Background: Postmenopausal androgen excess often occurs due to the imbalance between the rapid decline in ovarian estrogen and a relatively gradual decline in androgen secretion. The rapid onset of hirsutism, alopecia, and acne, on the other hand, is a rare occurrence and requires further investigation in order to rule out an underlying neoplasm.

Case Report: A 54-year-old woman arrived at the endocrinology outpatient clinic for the appearance of hirsutism and defluvium capitis in the past 9 months.

10 Cases of Nonresponse to Laser Thermoablation from a Series of 187 Patients: Histological Outcomes after Surgery and Related Evaluations.

Background: Thyroid thermoablative techniques have been developed as an alternative to surgery for the treatment of symptomatic benign nodes, with the advantage of being minimally invasive, repeatable, with a minimal complication rate, and avoiding the perioperative risks and irreversible consequences of surgery.

Methods: A series of patients undergoing laser thermoablation by the same team of endocrinologists operating in 2 centers from May 2016 to December 2022 is presented. The procedure was performed in patients with compressive symptomatology determined by a thyroid node typed TIR 2, or TIR 3A with rejection of the surgical option.

Pregnancy and Diabetes in Turin: Lights and Shadows from Real Life Data.

Background: From 2021, PSDTA for women with pregnancy complicated by diabetes will be active in the ASL city of Turin; given the city's increasing multiculturalism, we decided to evaluate from this point of view the patients who entered this pathway.

Methods: Data on women from 1/10/2022 to 30/09/2023 were collected from the computerized medical record.

Results: Total patients: 304, Type of diabetes: T1D 3%; MODY < 1%; T2D 4% Diabetes manifested in pregnancy (DMIP) 2%, GDM 90%, Foreigners prevalence: GDM: 67%, T2D%, T1D: Foreign 11%, Planned vs.

Microplastic contamination in the agri-food chain: The case of honeybees and beehive products.

Microplastics, MPs, plastic fragments with a dimension lower than 5 mm, and microfibers, MFs, synthetic and natural/artificial fibrous fragments with a diameter lower than 50 μm, are ubiquitous pollutants identified in different environmental compartments. In this work the occurrence of MPs and MFs on honeybees, Apis mellifera, and beehive products was evaluated, using Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy, confirming that MPs and MFs are widely present as air contaminants in all the apiary's areas (high and low urbanized areas) in Southern Italy. Results indicated that independently from the site, both honeybees and honey samples, are contaminated by MFs with non-natural color.