Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with adrenal incidentaloma (AI) and autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS) show a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and an increased prevalence and incidence of cardiovascular events. Furthermore, some recent data suggest that in these patients, the cardiovascular mortality is also increased. Unfortunately, to date, the diagnosis of ACS is still a matter of debate, and, therefore, it is still not possible to reliably predict the effect of the rec...