Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Recent studies found an increased cardiometabolic risk in patients with Non-Functioning Adrenal Incidentaloma (NFAI), but all these data have low quality of evidence.Objective: To establish whether cardiometabolic risk and complications in NFAI patients can be associated to the presence of a non-secreting adrenal tumor, independently from potential confounding factors.Subjects and Methods: In this cross-sectional and ...

Background: The systematic use of confirmatory tests in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA) increases costs, risks and complexity to the diagnostic work-up. In light of this, some authors proposed aldosterone-to-renin (ARR) cut-offs and/or integrated flow-charts to avoid this step. Patients with resistant hypertension (RH), however, are characterized by a dysregulated renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, even in the absence of PA. Thus, it is unclear whether those str...