Adrenal News

Adults with mild autonomous cortisol secretion have a higher frailty index score when compared with those with nonfunctioning adrenal adenomas, reflecting the possibility of cortisol secretion-induced accelerated aging, study data show.

Healio and Endocrine Today have compiled a list of the most read news from the virtual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions.

An increased cortisol level at hospital admission for individuals with COVID-19 may serve as an independent predictor of worse disease course, mortality and reduced median survival, study data show.

Adults with Cushing’s disease who took the cortisol synthesis inhibitor osilodrostat were more likely to sustain a normal mean urinary free cortisol level vs. placebo, according to press release from Recordati Rare Diseases.

Since early March, experts have undertaken a flurry of new study and guidance for treating endocrine conditions in the setting of COVID-19. Debate continues over the risks for worse disease outcomes, optimal management and best treatments.

Adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who received an oral corticotropin-releasing hormone antagonist for 14 days experienced significant reductions in androgen levels with no serious adverse events, study data show.

In May, Healio readers were interested in sex hormones being investigated for treating COVID-19, greater COVID-19 complications for patients with diabetes and obesity, associations between thyroid dysfunction and working hours, and more.

A cohort of adults with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome experienced a high rate of bone turnover immediately after surgical remission, resulting in a “striking” net increase in bone mineral density for most patients, researchers reported.

Researchers are urging clinicians to screen for primary aldosteronism more often after finding evidence that the condition is more common than previously thought and could be a primary cause of high BP.

Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, MACE, a leading expert on diabetes and cardiometabolic disorders and long-time chief medical editor of Endocrine Today, died Thursday, April 9.