Explain what an endocrine disorder is and what affects it may have on the body. Are...

Explain what an endocrine disorder is and what affects it may have on the body. Are they the same as autoimmune disorders?

Compare and Contrast Cushing’s disease and Addison’s disease (make sure to include: the gland and hormone involved/causes, characteristics/symptoms, treatment)

Differentiate between hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, cretinism, and myxedema. (do not just write their definitions.)

Back in the day, surgeons would perform a thyroidectomy on patients with thyroid disorders. When they removed the full thyroid gland, their patients would develop neuromuscular disorders and die. Turns out there were these very small and important glands on the posterior aspect of the thyroid called parathyroid glands. Explain what happened when the surgeons unknowingly removed these.

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Explain what an endocrine disorder is and what affects it may have on the body. Are they the same as autoimmune disorders?

Endocrine disorders are the disorders that are related to the endocrine glands of the body and this endocrine glands are if vital importance to the body as endocrine system is responsible for secretions of hormones, secretions and chemical signalling through the blood throughout the body. The effect of endocrine disorder in the body functioning, changes in the heart functioning and tissue growth. In some endocrine disorder the effects such as diabetes, thyroid disorder, sexual dysfunction and hormonal and related disorders. Endocrine disorders are not same as autoimmune disorders, as autoimmune disorders are related to the hyperactivity of the immune system and has no direct connection to the endocrine glands or hormone release and function. Autoimmune disorders have genetic and environmental factors as the causes which is not same with the endocrine disorders.

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