ea0026p351 | Steroid metabolism | ECE2011
Manenschijn L
, Koper J W
, van den Akker E L T
, Feelders R A
, Lamberts S W J
, van Rossum E F C
Introduction: Elevated levels of cortisol are known to induce a wide range of pathology, e.g. abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Measuring serum and saliva cortisol is limited to one time point. Measurement of cortisol in scalp hair is a recently developed method to measure long term cortisol levels and might reflect cortisol exposure in patients with hyper- or hypo-cortisolism and in healthy persons. Our aims were to explore this measurement of cor...