Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Obesity is becoming a major health concern and it is one of the common referrals seen in the Endocrine clinics for evaluation and further management. Cushing’s syndrome is one of the rare causes of Obesity particularly central but may be general.Overnight Dexamethasone suppression test(ODST)is used as screening test for Cushing’s Syndrome.Suppression of Cortisol to 80 nmol/l after ODST is expected in most of the normal individuals,one of the difficultie...