Danúbia Sá-Caputo1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Laisa Liane Paineiras-Domingos2, 3, 4Email authorView ORCID ID profile, Arlete Francisca-Santos2, 4, Elzi Martins dos Anjos2, Aline Silva Reis2, Mario Fritsch Toros Neves6, Wille Oigman7, Ricardo Oliveira6, Andrea Brandão7, Christiano Bittencourt Machado5, 8, Xavier Chiementin9, Redha Taiar9, Alessandro Sartório10, 11 and Mario Bernardo-Filho2 BMC Endocrine Disorders201919:6 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-018-0329-0 © The Author(s).