Endocrine Abstracts

BACKGROUND: The determination of Night Salivary Cortisol (NSC) is a useful survey in the screening for hypercortilosism. Study data about its usefulness, even when different methods of dosage are used, are anyway scarce.OBJECTIVE: To compare the diagnostic performance in the NSC dosage of the chemiluminescence method (CLIA) and of mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).METHODS: Saliva samples were taken at 11:00 pm in 36 healthy volunteers a...