Is there value in routine screening for Cushing's syndrome in patients with diabetes?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2262-2265

  Mullan, K ^a   Black, N ^a   Thiraviaraj, A ^a   Bell, P M ^a   Burgess, C ^a   Hunter, S J ^a   McCance, D R ^a   Leslie, H ^a   Sheridan, B ^a   Atkinson, A B ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HYDROCORTISONE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIURNAL ANIMAL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA;

BODY MASS INDEX; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA;

EID: 77952777807     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-2453     Document Type: Article

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