Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Adrenal incidentalomas (AI) represent incidentaly discovered adrenal mases, without simptoms or signs suggestive of adrenal pathology, at the time of visualization. It is well-known that overt or subclinical hypercorticism, as well as metabolic syndrome (MetS) harbour increased CV risk.There is still persisting debate on eventual cause-effect relationship of AI with metabolic syndrome MetS or probability of simply more frequent occurance of AI among these patients....