Endocrine Terms Matching
| Fasting Blood Glucose/Sugar |
| blood test used to identify or confirm a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Also used to monitor treatment of diabetes. |
| Parathyroid hormone (PTH) |
| blood test used to identify hyperparathyroidism or hypoparathyroidism and is used to monitor response to PTH therapy |
| enlarged thyroid gland, may be seen in Graves disease |
| Chronic, untreated hypothyroid state in adults. There is an accumulation of non-pitting edema in connective tissues throughout body
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| TSH thyroid-stimulating hormone |
| stimulates the synthesis and release of the thyroid hormones from the thyroid gland |
| most common cause of thyroid disease and goiter in children and adolescents |
| blood test used to evaluate the secretion of growth factor and to identify GH deficiency or excess |
| Life-threatening acute adrenal insufficiency
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