Endocrine Abstracts

Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is a disease entity that through hypercortisolism affects all body’s tissues leading to increased morbidity, decreased quality of life and mortality. Muscles are among the tissues primarily affected. However, data on the impact of endogenous hypercortisolism on functional muscle capacity and daily physical activity levels are scarce. We studied 23 subjects with endogenous CS (mean age: 40.73±2.17 years) and 22 healthy aged and sex matched...