Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To assess baseline differences on lipid profile in individuals with gender identity disorder (male to female, M2F and female to male, F2M) in relation to prior cross-sex hormone treatment (CHT) or not, and changes in the lipid profile after 24 months of treatment and follow-up in our unit.Methods: Transversal study by revision of medical records of 235 patients visited for first time in our service from 2006 to 2010. Clinical and analytical r...

Introduction: Clinical observational studies have reported the persistence of a high cardiovascular risk in patients with cured Cushing’s syndrome (CCS) compared with controls of the same age, gender and BMI. It is still at debated whether this is due to the persistence of comorbidities, hormone deficiencies or chronic changes induced by hypercortisolism. The aim of this translational approach was to investigate the interplay in CCS of the cardiovascular disease in vivo a...