Patients with apparently nonfunctioning adrenal incidentalomas may be at increased cardiovascular risk due to excessive cortisol secretion.

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Although adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are associated with a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors, it is not clear whether patients with nonfunctioning AI (NFAI) have increased CVR.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.

Title: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

ISSN (Electronic): 1945-7197

ISSN (Print): 0021-972X

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2014

Volume: 99

Issue: 8

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[1 ] Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes (I.I.A., A.C.M., A.K.G., G.P.P.), General Hospital of Athens "G. Gennimatas," and Endocrine Unit (G.A.K., D.A.T., K.I.A.), Department of Pathophysiology, National University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece; Endocrine Unit (I.I.A., D.J.H.), Second Department of Internal Medicine-Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece; and Vascular Laboratory (G.E.K., C.M.P.), Department of Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.

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DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-4064

PubMed ID: 24712565

SO-VID: 682cbe3e-888a-4b28-9259-ee5b8c393448

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