Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aim: There is an increasing use of computed tomography (CT) scans with an iodine-based contrast medium. Last year, a large University Hospital in Denmark performed 50 000 CT scans where each injection contained between 3500 and 7000 μg free iodine corresponding to 23–45 times normal daily intake. We wished to investigate if patients with newly diagnosed hyperthyroidism had been exposed to an iodine based CT scan within 1 year prior to symptoms of hyper...

Background: Hypercortisolism is prevalent in type 2 diabetes (T2D), but analytical and functional uncertainties prevail. Measurement of salivary cortisol is considered an expedient screening method for hypercortisolism, but its usefulness in the context of T2D is uncertain.Aim: To compare late night salivary cortisol (LNSC) with the 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test (DST), which was considered ‘reference standard’, in T2D.<p cla...