ea0038p322 | Pituitary | SFEBES2015
Sivapackianathan Rasheeta
, Suriyakumaran Jayani
, Akker Scott
, Drake William
, Waterhouse Mona
, Druce Maralyn
Introduction: Increased cardiovascular risk in hypopituitary patients was first documented by Rosen in 1990. Subsequent studies confirmed increased prevalence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in these patients. The exact mechanism for this is unclear. There is no clear consensus on how best to quantify or predict cardiac risk in hypopituitarism. QRISK2 cardiovascular disease risk algorithm provides estimates of 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in patients...