Publications by authors named "Eduardo Cohen"

Objectives: To assess height and weight as possible sex-specific risk factors for bilateral myopia among young adults.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study including 101,438 pre-enlisted young adult males and females, aged 17.4 ± 0.

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Hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT) is a rare disease characterized by low calcium and inappropriately low circulating parathormone levels. We present the case of a 25-year-old high-performance athlete male, with history of HypoPT after total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma (T3 N1b M0) two years before, who was referred to our clinic for symptomatic hypocalcemia. The patient reported serum calcium average levels of 7mg%, presented symptoms of hypocalcemia at rest and had multiple hospital admissions.

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