Strikingly low prevalence of pituitary incidentalomas in a teaching hospital in Uruguay.

Background: Pituitary incidentalomas are an occurrence documented in 10.6% of post-mortem examinations, 4%-20% of computed tomography (CT) scans, and 10%-38% of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cases, primarily consisting of microincidentalomas (<1 cm in size). However, the prevalence of pituitary incidentalomas in Uruguay remains unexplored.

[Similarities between obesity and substance abuse disorder].

Obesity and its complications are one of the biggest problems that a clinician faces today. The vast majority of the treatments implemented have low effcacy, and obesity becomes diffcult to manage. In the last decades, obesity prevalence has doubled.