How can an endocrinologist help you?

An endocrinologist is a medical expert who has completed three years of post-graduate training in internal medicine. He or she is one who is specialized in treating the diseases and disorders associated with the endocrine system of the human body.

Following are few areas that an endocrinologist treats:

• Cancer of the endocrine glands: Endocrine system comprises of endocrine glands such as pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, pancreatic and adrenal glands which secrete hormones and when gets imbalanced leads to cancer.

• Cholesterol disorders: Cholesterol is of two type’s low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDL cholesterol is called bad cholesterol and HDL cholesterol is called good cholesterol. However, body needs cholesterol for its proper working, but if not secreted then it leads to two cholesterol disorders called hyperlipidemia (unusually high level of fat) and hypolipidemia (unusually low level of fat).

• Diabetes: Primary care providers in NYC say that when body fails to utilize the ingested glucose properly it leads to diabetes problem. This is because lack of hormone insulin leads to high blood glucose that damage the blood vessels. Further problem of diabetes causes several complications like heart disease, kidney damage, nerve damage, eye damage and blindness, impotence and stroke.

• Hypertension: Also referred as high blood pressure, it’s a problem associated with heart. The heart when does not work regularly it damages various organs like coronary arteries, the brain, the kidneys, and the eyes. Blood pressure when comes below 120/80 it is said to be normal. However, if blood pressure is between 120/80 and 139/89 is called prehypertension and when between 140/90 or above is considered hypertension.

• Menopause: With growing age, women face this issue. A phase describes the end of reproductive period of women. In other words, women will no longer be able to have children.

• Metabolic disorders: When organism metabolism is affected, it leads to metabolic disorders. The risk factors of this syndrome are large waistline, high triglyceride level, low HDL cholesterol level, high blood pressure, and High fasting blood sugar.

• Osteoporosis: This disease is related to bones. When bones are weakened, it is at a risk of getting break even if one sneeze or bump into furniture. This means bone loses its density and causes structure of bone tissue to become abnormal. Usually, this problem occurs with people who are of the age 50.