Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: ACTH deficiency is life-threatening, but difficult to differentiate from ACTH suppression especially in children and young people (CYP) receiving perioperative corticosteroids for pituitary tumour surgery. In our experience, ACTH is the most, and GH the least robust anterior pituitary hormone, with LH/FSH and TSH intermediate in hierarchical loss.Aims: To assess potential misdiagnosis of ACTH suppression versus deficiency and time to adrena...

Background: Type III hyperlipidaemia (T3HL) is characterised by equimolar increases in plasma triglyceride and cholesterol on an APOE2/2 genotype background and conveys a high risk of early-onset cardiovascular disease (CVD). Phenotypic penetrance of T3HL is <10% and precipitated by several endocrine/metabolic disorders such as obesity, diabetes and hypothyroidism. We explored the effect of triglyceride-raising polygenic score precipitating T3HL, in the context of...