ea0022oc4.6 | Adrenals | ECE2010
Tomaschitz Andreas
, Pilz Stefan
, Ritz Eberhard
, Grammer Tanja
, Drechsler Christiane
, Boehm Bernhard
, Maerz Winfried
Over the past several years, growing evidence suggested that serum cortisol is associated with increased cardiovascular (CVD) mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. The prognostic significance of serum cortisol concentration (SCC) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) however is unknown.In the prospective Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study 3316 patients (median age: 63.5 (56.370.6) years; 30.2% women) were...