- Docente: Uberto Pagotto
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The course should help the student to recognize the pathogenetic mechanisms, to formulate a more appropriate diagnostic procedure and to propose a tailored treatment to the endocrinological and metabolic diseases in which a disturbance of circadian rhythm is involved.
Course contents
Endocrine circadian rhythms
1) Relevance of the chronobiology in the endocrine practice
2) Endocrine systems and circadian rhythms in physiology and pathophysiology
3) Chronobiology of obesity and diabetes
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture slides and pdf of journal articles proposed by the teacher
Teaching methods
Assessment methods
Oral test at the end of the series of lectures.
Teaching tools
Frontal lectures including slides and references from literature.
Office hours
See the website of Uberto Pagotto