Senility: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis
Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90). Obesity (overweight). Adrenopause – increasing decline in adrenal (originating from the adrenal cortex) DHEA(S) production in adults. Andropause (male menopause) Diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2 (also called “adult-onset diabetes”). Malnutrition Menopause (female menopause; climacteric) Somatopause – increasing decline in STH secretion (somatotropic hormone (STH); growth hormone) with immediate … Senility: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis