Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Chronic catecholamine overproduction in pheochromocytoma may lead to a proinflammatory and hypermetabolic state characterized by increased resting energy expenditure and brown adipose tissue activation. Non-neoplastic hypercortisolaemia aka pseudo-Cushing syndrome (PCS) is a physiological overactivation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis by e.g. depression, eating disorders, extreme exercise, obesity, alcoholism, poorly controlled diabetes and c...