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18th European Congress of Endocrinology

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Are we ready for pharmacological therapy of obesity?

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Should we treat subclinical Cushing’s syndrome?

Stewart Paul M

The term subclinical Cushing syndrome arose at the turn of the millennium with the description of large Italian study of adrenal incidentalomas. Of 1096 patients from 26 centres, 9.2% had ‘subclinical Cushing’s’ (JCEM, 2000; 85:637-644). Since then over 300 publications have detailed this newly discovered endocrine diagnosis, and herein lies the main issue. The definition of Cushing’s syndrome is not in doubt – a ‘constellation of symptoms and sig...