common endocrinopathy

Question 0

Define Addison’s disease

Answer 0

Adenal insufficiency disease

Question 1

What hormones are produced by the adrenal glands?

Answer 1

Glucocorticoids, Mineralocorticoids, Androgens.

Question 2

What is the main glucocorticoid?

Answer 2

cortisol

Question 3

what is the main mineralocorticoid?

Answer 3

Aldosterone

Question 4

what are the risk factors of Addison’s?

Answer 4

Female, autoimmune disease, HIV, fungi.

Question 5

Where in the adrenal gland is the glucocorticoids produced?

Answer 5

In the zona facsiculata

Question 6

Where in the adrenals is the mineralocorticoids produced?

Answer 6

In the zona glemerulosa

Question 8

What is Cushings disease?

Answer 8

A disease that results from excess chronic exposure to glucocorticoids