Diabetes Tests
Patients with diabetes have above-normal levels of blood sugar and trouble converting food to energy. In addition to testing blood sugar, an endocrinologist looks for other symptoms of diabetes, such as unexplained weight loss, increased thirst, fatigue, blurred vision and sores that do not heal.
Thyroid Tests
The thyroid gland sits at the front of your neck below your voice box and the hormones the gland releases affect weight, muscle strength, metabolism, cholesterol levels, brain development, breathing and functioning of the heart and nervous system. The TSH test is one of the tests that measure the thyroid-stimulating hormone in the blood.
Growth Tests
An endocrinologist order tests to diagnose growth-hormone conditions and these blood tests look at levels of insulin-like growth factor and measure growth hormone during an oral glucose tolerance test to detect excessive hormones, which cause extreme height, increased head size, headaches, high blood pressure, cardiac dysfunction, and prediabetes.
Reproduction Tests
These are the tests to check hormones released from sex organs.
Bone Tests
People whose bodies release too much or too little calcium into the blood have a variety of symptoms and the most common of which are unusual vitamin D levels and bone loss. These tests check the level of calcium in the blood as well as measure calcium in the urine.