Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and long-term glucocorticoid treatment may be associated with an increased risk of developing cardiometabolic sequelae such as abnormal glucose homeostasis, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, cardiovascular (CV) disease, obesity and osteoporosis.Objectives: To study the current practice amongst expert centres for assessing cardiometabolic outcomes in adult patients with 21-hydroxylase CAH and to assess the pre...

Background: EuRRECa (eurreca.net) is a web-based project that supports professional networks such as European Reference Networks (ERNs) in capturing standardised clinical information. The project includes an e-reporting registry (e-REC), which can be used to perform regular surveillance of specific events. Since 2018, e-REC has been used by the ERN for rare endocrine conditions (Endo-ERN) to understand the number of new clinical encounters at centres within this network.<p...