Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with Cushing’s syndrome have a poor quality of sleep. However, little is known about their timing of sleep as regulated by the circadian clock, the so called-chronotype. Considering that patients with Cushing’s syndrome lose their rhythmic circadian cortisol secretion and that corticosteroids act as synchronizer of the circadian clock in cells, aim of the study was to determine whether patients with Cushing’s syndrome alter the timing of their sleep com...