Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal insufficiency is a deadly disorder. Studies on the outcome of patients with adrenal insufficiency may have been hampered by the dramatic improvement in mortality and morbidity that occurred when synthetic glucocorticoids came available more than 60 years ago. Studies during the last 17 years have repeatedly shown that mortality rate in patients with hypopituitarism is doubled. The presence of adrenal insufficiency in hypopituitarism in young adults with childhood-onset...