Clinical Endocrinology is a branch of medicine dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and research into diseases of the endocrine glands, which secrete hormones into the blood stream. Diabetes, osteoporosis and thyroid diseases currently represent the majority of patients treated by physicians who treat adult patients.
The remaining patients represent a wide variety of diseases resulting from over-function or under-function of endocrine glands including the hypothalamus and pituitary, adrenals, gonads and the parathyroid glands.