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Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management
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An impaired glucose metabolism, which often leads to the onset of diabetes mellitus (DM), is a common complication of chronic exposure to exogenous and endogenous glucocorticoid (GC) excess and plays an important part in contributing to morbidity and mortality in patients with Cushing syndrome (CS). This article reviews the pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of changes in glucose metabolism associated with hypercortisolism, addressing both the pathophysiological aspects and the clinical and therapeutic implications. Chronic hypercortisolism may have pleiotropic effects on all major peripheral tissues governing glucose homeostasis. Adding further complexity, both genomic and nongenomic mechanisms are directly induced by GCs in a context-specific and cell-/organ-dependent manner. In this paper, the discussion focuses on established and potential pathologic molecular mechanisms that are induced by chronically excessive circulating levels of GCs and affect glucose homeostasis in various tissues. The management of patients with CS and DM includes treating their hyperglycemia and correcting their GC excess. The effects on glycemic control of various medical therapies for CS are reviewed in this paper. The association between DM and subclinical CS and the role of screening for CS in diabetic patients are also discussed.
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This review synthesizes molecular, epidemiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic evidence on glucose metabolism abnormalities in endogenous and exogenous Cushing syndrome, emphasizing that hypercortisolism causes insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion. It concludes that controlling hypercortisolism is central to glycemic improvement, but evidence for optimal antidiabetic therapy in CS remains limited.
Key findings
- In endogenous CS, 20%–45% of patients have DM and 10%–30% have defective glucose tolerance, with overall glucose metabolism impairment approaching 70%; fasting plasma glucose may be normal in 64% of endogenous CS patients with DM.
- Exogenous GC use carries dose-dependent DM risk: nearly 9% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis developed DM within 2 years of starting GC treatment; odds ratios for starting an oral hypoglycemic agent or insulin were 1.77, 3.02, 5.82, and 10.34 for hydrocortisone-equivalent doses of 1–39, 40–79, 80–119, and ≥120 mg/d, respectively; a meta-analysis reported an odds ratio of 1.5 to 2.5 for newly diagnosed DM with exogenous GCs.
- In subclinical CS/adrenal incidentalomas, DM or IGT was identified in 20%–25% of patients with AI and SCS, though prevalence varied with screening methods and diagnostic criteria.
- Medical therapy effects varied: ketoconazole improved glycemic control in 56% of diabetic patients in a series of 200 CD patients; mifepristone reduced OGTT glucose AUC by at least 25% in 60% of patients with DM/IGT (median decrease 36%); cabergoline reduced DM prevalence from 25% to 10% and IGT from 37.5% to 20% after 24 months in responsive patients; pasireotide caused hyperglycemia in up to 73% and 6% discontinued treatment because of hyperglycemia-related adverse events or uncontrolled DM.
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- Design: narrative review of the pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of changes in glucose metabolism associated with hypercortisolism, addressing pathophysiological and clinical/therapeutic implications.
- Data: cited literature and summary tables on prevalence of DM/glucose intolerance in CS, adrenal incidentalomas, screening for CS in type 2 DM, and medication effects; no primary patient sample or systematic search strategy is described.
- Analysis: qualitative synthesis of molecular mechanisms and clinical evidence; no meta-analysis or formal risk-of-bias assessment is described.
Limitations
- Stated: there is a lack of studies specifically investigating antidiabetic therapy in endogenous CS and few studies in exogenous GC-induced hyperglycemia; evidence on optimal antidiabetic treatment is scarce, and recommendations are based largely on current best practice.
- Stated: there is no general consensus on diagnostic criteria for SCS, and prevalence estimates vary with screening methods and criteria.
- Evident: as a narrative review, it does not report a systematic search, meta-analysis, or primary data; many cited therapeutic studies are retrospective, small, or uncontrolled.
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“There may also be indirect effects of GCs on peripheral insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis through GC-dependent changes in protein and lipid metabolism, as well as GC-mediated impairments in interorgan communication conducted by organderived circulating factors.”
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“Chronic hypercortisolism may have pleiotropic effects on all major peripheral tissues governing glucose homeostasis.”
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“In the liver, the aberrant HGO that contributes to hyperglycemia is attributed largely to the transcriptional upregulation of key gluconeogenic enzymes.”
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“In particular, GCs profoundly alter the hepatic action of insulin, resulting in exacerbated gluconeogenesis and hepatic glucose output (HGO) through both direct and indirect effects on the mechanisms controlling these processes.”
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“A second important effect of GCs in the liver is to induce a selective IR that impedes the inhibitory effect of insulin on HGO while preserving the lipogenic effect of the hormone.”
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“In the liver, chronic hypercortisolism impairs fasting and postprandial glucose and lipid metabolism.”
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“Interestingly, recent studies indicate that GCs may also stimulate lipogenesis in the liver through epigenetic mechanisms involving microRNAs.”
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“GCs bind and activate a superfamily of nuclear receptors [glucocorticoid receptors (GCRs)] that control the transcription of certain genes in a cell-and tissue-specific manner by binding directly to genomic glucocorticoid response elements (GCREs) or by tethering to other DNA-binding transcription factors.”
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“Impaired glucose metabolism may be an important contributor to the higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with CS.”
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“Higher plasma mineralocorticoid levels may be associated with IR (, ).”
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“In conclusion, the lack of studies on the effects of different antidiabetic agents in CS patients with altered glucose homeostasis has complicated development of guidelines on an optimal antidiabetic strategy for such patients.”
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“An impaired glucose metabolism, which often leads to the onset of diabetes mellitus (DM), is a common complication of chronic exposure to exogenous and endogenous glucocorticoid (GC) excess and plays an important part in contributing to morbidity and mortality in patients with Cushing syndrome (CS).”
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“Surprisingly, only % of patients with CS developed hepatic steatosis (, ), suggesting that lipotoxicity associated with aberrant lipid storage in hepatocytes is not a predominant pathologic mechanism of IR in this disease.”
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“GC excess may impair glucose metabolism through many complex pathophysiological mechanisms and is associated with varying degrees of glucose intolerance, including impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and overt diabetes mellitus (DM).”
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“Adding further complexity, both genomic and nongenomic mechanisms are directly induced by GCs in a contextspecific and cell-/organ-dependent manner.”
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“Abdominal obesity is closely associated with metabolic syndrome and CS.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Consequences of hypercortisolism on adipose tissue
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“The precise mechanisms underlying these pathologic GC-induced outcomes in muscle are still not entirely clear, but they too appear to stem from pleiotropic effects that contribute to impairment of insulin signaling and glucose uptake.”
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“Several other mechanisms of aldosterone-induced glucose intolerance have been suggested, including effects on insulin signaling, stimulation of hepatic gluconeogenesis, effects on sodium-glucose transport, and fibrosis-induced dysfunction in insulin-producing or insulin-sensitive tissues.”
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“It has been suggested that nongenomic actions of MRs might result in increased collagen synthesis and fibrosis, not only in the heart but also in other insulin-sensitive tissues such as the pancreas, liver, fat, and”
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“Similarly, patients with PA had low adiponectin levels with an associated weaker insulin sensitivity ().”
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“From % to % of patients with endogenous CS have DM, and % to % have defective glucose tolerance, so the overall prevalence of glucose metabolism impairments can come close to %, as shown in Table (, , -).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Endogenous CS
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“MRs on adipocytes promoted the expression of inflammatory adipokines (-), giving rise to lower insulin receptor expression and impaired insulin-induced glucose uptake ().”
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“Mineralocorticoids might also indirectly limit insulin secretion by the pancreas as a result of hypokalemia; in other words, impaired insulin secretion could be caused by potassium depletion in individuals with PA.”
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“These mechanisms can lead to tissue damage, potentially resulting in altered insulin release and sensitivity ().”
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“Corticosteroid-binding globulin binds cortisol with a high capacity and affinity, reducing free GC levels to ~%, whereas aldosterone circulates mainly in its free form ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > GC metabolic effects mediated by mineralocorticoid receptors
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“In patients with primary aldosteronism (PA), resection of aldosteroneproducing tumors and pharmacological treatment both reduced blood insulin and glucose levels, suggesting an improvement in insulin sensitivity (, ).”
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“Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level may not suffice to assess glucose homeostasis in CS because more than one in two patients (%) with endogenous CS and DM have normal FGP levels () and because an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is not always performed in patients with apparently normal fasting glycemia ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Endogenous CS
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- Not checked yetcites [185] Mancini, 2004, High cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing’s syndrome according to 1999 WHO/ISH guidelines, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
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“No sex-related differences have been described in the prevalence of this CS complication (, ).”
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- Not checked yetcites [184] Pecori Giraldi, 2003, Study Group on the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis of the Italian Society of Endocrinology. Gender-related differences in the presentation and course of Cushing’s disease, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
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“The risk of DM was greater in subjects with abdominal adiposity or a genetic predisposition to DM and in those taking higher doses of GCs and for longer periods (, -).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Exogenous CS
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“There is no general consensus, however, on the diagnostic criteria for identifying cases of SCS, which consequently vary considerably among different investigators and studies.”
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“By definition, AI patients have no clinical signs of abnormal cortisol secretion; however, % to % of them may have SCS.”
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“Generally speaking, the severity of hypercortisolism correlates with the presence of IR and DM, as evidenced by an association with higher urinary free cortisol (UFC) levels (, ), though this was not identified in all studies (, ).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Endogenous CS
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- Not checked yetcites [181] Friedman, 1996, Carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in endogenous hypercortisolism: shared features with metabolic syndrome X and NIDDM, Endocr J source
- Not checked yetcites [185] Mancini, 2004, High cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing’s syndrome according to 1999 WHO/ISH guidelines, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
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“The -mg dexamethasone overnight suppression test is recommended for screening patients with AI for SCS, setting the threshold at nmol/L; a value of nmol/L virtually excludes SCS, whereas values between and nmol/L occupy an area of uncertainty ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Subclinical CS
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- Not checked yetcites [207] Terzolo, 2002, Adrenal incidentaloma: a new cause of the metabolic syndrome?, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
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“Focusing on glucose metabolism, the prevalence of IGT or DM has been higher in patients with SCS than in cases of nonfunctioning adenoma or controls (, , , , , , ), but these data were not confirmed by other studies that found much the same prevalence of these comorbidities in SCS as in the overall series of AI and in the general population (, -).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Subclinical CS
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- Not checked yetcites [200] Rossi, 2000, Subclinical Cushing’s syndrome in patients with adrenal incidentaloma: clinical and biochemical features, J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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“Overall, DM or IGT was identified in % to % of patients with AI and SCS and was related to patients' age (), the size of their adenomas, their midnight cortisol level, and their plasma cortisol level after suppression with dexamethasone ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Subclinical CS
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- Not checked yetcites [219] Muscogiuri, 2011, The size of adrenal incidentalomas correlates with insulin resistance. Is there a cause-effect relationship?, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
- Not checked yetcites [211] Morelli, 2010, Subclinical hypercortisolism: correlation between biochemical diagnostic criteria and clinical aspects, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
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“The results of these studies suggest that chronic mild hypercortisolism, as in SCS, may be associated with the clinical phenotype of IR syndrome or, alternatively, that AI may be per se an unrecognized manifestation of metabolic syndrome.”
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“Ketoconazole has been used worldwide for more than years to lower circulating cortisol levels in CS, although only retrospective studies have reported on its use to date.”
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“At doses higher than g daily, mitotane also has an adrenolytic effect, inducing cellular necrosis, so it is indicated mainly in adrenal cancer ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > The effect of adrenal-directed drugs
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- Not checked yetcites [265] Mancini, 2010, Treatment of Cushing disease: overview and recent findings, Ther Clin Risk Manag source
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“Available data consequently do not support largescale screening for CS in patients with type DM but may suggest a case-finding approach for hypercortisolism in diabetic patients with certain features (i.e., uncontrolled DM despite appropriate treatment, drug-resistant hypertension, Cushingoid appearance, central obesity, osteoporosis, or polycystic ovary syndrome) (, ).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Screening for Hypercortisolism in Patients With Type 2 DM
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [245] Leibowitz, 1996, Pre-clinical Cushing’s syndrome: an unexpected frequent cause of poor glycaemic control in obese diabetic patients, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
- Not checked yetcites [263] Nieman, 2008, The diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
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“As demonstrated by Colao et al. () in , patients cured of CD who have normal serum and urinary cortisol levels for at least years have a higher prevalence of atherosclerosis than healthy controls and maintain several clinical and biochemical abnormalities typical of active CD, such as obesity, hypertension, IGT, hyperlipidemia, and hypercoagulability.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
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- Not checked yetcites [191] Colao, 1999, Persistence of increased cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing’s disease after five years of successful cure, J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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“It is worth noting that no cases of confirmed SCS emerged among a population of diabetic outpatients forming another large series in a recent study in India (); in this study, however, patients with clinical signs suggestive of hypercortisolism (easy bruising, facial plethora, proximal muscle weakness, and/or striae) were excluded a priori from the evaluation.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Screening for Hypercortisolism in Patients With Type 2 DM
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- Not checked yetcites [259] Budyal, 2015, Is it worthwhile to screen patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus for subclinical Cushing’s syndrome?, Endocr Connect source
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“The normalization of cortisol levels after surgery and/or radiotherapy is generally followed by the resolution of patients' glucose metabolism impairment because their hypercortisolism is responsible for their hyperglycemia.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
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“Both treatments can cause hypopituitarism (including GH deficiency) that, left untreated, may alter glucose metabolism and raise patients' cardiovascular risk ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [266] Gola, 2005, Clinical review: Growth hormone and cardiovascular risk factors, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
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“Although this figure is too low in absolute terms to support the efficacy of widespread screening, it means that CS is much more common than previously believed, considering the high prevalence of type DM in the general population.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Screening for Hypercortisolism in Patients With Type 2 DM
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“On the other hand, the frequency of CS identified in an unselected population of type DM patients was too low compared with the number of false-positive results to make a routine screening strategy applicable in practice (), given its high cost-effectiveness and the lack of specific tests for diagnosing CS, especially in patients with a slightly elevated cortisol secretion and SCS ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Screening for Hypercortisolism in Patients With Type 2 DM
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“Controlling hypercortisolism is the first step toward improving glucose metabolism in patients with endogenous CS, but different treatments for hypercortisolism may affect the outcome of diabetes, regardless of how well cortisol excess is corrected (, , , , , , ).”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [1] Arnaldi, 2003, Diagnosis and complications of Cushing’s syndrome: a consensus statement, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
- Not checked yetcites [12] Mazziotti, 2011, Diabetes in Cushing syndrome: basic and clinical aspects, Trends Endocrinol Metab source
- Not checked yetcites [183] Faggiano, 2003, Cardiovascular risk factors and common carotid artery caliber and stiffness in patients with Cushing’s disease during active disease and 1 year after disease remission, J Clin Endocrinol Metab source
- Not checked yetcites [186] Giordano, 2011, Metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with Cushing’s syndrome of different aetiologies during active disease and 1 year after remission, Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) source
- Not checked yetcites [190] Arnaldi, 2004, Cardiovascular risk in Cushing’s syndrome, Pituitary source
- Not checked yetcites [191] Colao, 1999, Persistence of increased cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing’s disease after five years of successful cure, J Clin Endocrinol Metab
- Not checked yetcites [264] Baroni, 2016, Italian Society for the Study of Diabetes (SID)/Italian Endocrinological Society (SIE) guidelines on the treatment of hyperglycemia in Cushing’s syndrome and acromegaly, J Endocrinol Invest source
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“The remission rate after neurosurgery is in the range of % to %, with a risk of recurrence at years ranging between % and %; for macroadenomas, the remission rate is lower, and recurrences tend to occur earlier than for microadenomas ().”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [265] Mancini, 2010, Treatment of Cushing disease: overview and recent findings, Ther Clin Risk Manag source
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“These features mean that patients who have a history of CD carry a higher cardiovascular risk than the general population, albeit lower than in patients with active disease.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Therapeutic Options for CS and Glycemic Control
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“Diagnostic tests and cutoffs are important factors influencing the outcome of any screening.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Screening for Hypercortisolism in Patients With Type 2 DM
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- Rests on an assumption: Diagnostic tests and cutoffs are important factors influencing the outcome of any screening.
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“Because most of the metabolic side effects mediated by GCR are via transactivation, whereas most of the desired anti-inflammatory effects are via transrepression, efforts have been made to separate these two modes of GCR activity.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Selective GCR modulators
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“Participation in appetite control a”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Conclusions
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- Not checked yetcites a
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“Inhibition of prolactin release”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Conclusions
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- Not checked yetcites a
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“Cortisol is the natural ligand for GCR in humans, and the binding of cortisol or other synthetic GCs results in metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects.”
§ Glucose Metabolism Abnormalities in Cushing Syndrome: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Management > Selective GCR modulators
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The paper relies on this without support.
Glucocorticoids circulate at 100- to 1000-fold higher plasma concentrations than aldosterone.
“MRs have a similar affinity for aldosterone and cortisol (), but GCs circulate at to -fold higher plasma concentrations than does aldosterone.”
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In brain and adipose tissue, mineralocorticoid receptors are high-affinity glucocorticoid receptors fully occupied by cortisol.
“In other tissues, such as brain and adipose tissue, MRs are considered high-affinity GC receptors, fully occupied by cortisol.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Diagnostic tests and cutoffs are important factors influencing the outcome of any screening.
“Diagnostic tests and cutoffs are important factors influencing the outcome of any screening.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Glucocorticoids induce diabetes mellitus.
“Although GCs are well known to induce DM, no studies have specifically investigated the role of antidiabetic therapy in the treatment of hyperglycemia in patients with endogenous CS, and few studies have reported the effects of some antidiabetic agents in exogenous GC-induced hyperglycemia.”
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“while diabetes in people with normal CORT levels is characterised by increased fasting glucose, a static metric by all means, secondary diabetes in hypercortisolemic patients can be better characterised by impaired glucose tolerance, a medical test that is intrinsically dynamic ( 14, 15 ).”
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“and by stimulating liver gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis ( 4, 15 ).”
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“This is important in view of the fact that an OGTT may not be performed when a patient's fasting glucose is normal, thus leading to an underestimation of the prevalence of diabetes in hypercortisolism ( 15 ).”
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Incorrect prevalence in the Chiodini screening cohort
MinorThe table reports 30 cases among 294 patients, which is 10.2%, not 9.4%.
Reported 9.4 · recomputed 10.204082
“| Chiodini | 294 | Inpatients, BMI 19-50 kg/m 2 | 1-mg DST (50 nmol/L) | 30 (9.4%) | |”
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InfluentialAldosterone & cortisol cosecretion
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scaroni, C., Zilio, M., Foti, M., & Boscaro, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Padua (IT)
- Department of Cell Physiology & Metabolism, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel Servet, 1211 Genèva, Switzerland
- Venue
- Endocrine Reviews
- Publisher
- The Endocrine Society
- Published
- 2017-03-20
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 189-219
- ISSN
- 0163-769X (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7189
- OpenAlex
- W2621858797
- Semantic Scholar
- 8c0496e85c53fd1dd9e21c5d85f1fdab54f725cc
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 383
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 1.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Endocrine Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Pfizer
- Viropharma
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Pancreatic function and diabetes
- Keywords
- Cushing's syndrome, glucose metabolism, hypercortisolism, glucocorticoid excess, diabetes mellitus, glucose homeostasis, subclinical Cushing's syndrome, glycemic control
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Blood Glucose, Cushing Syndrome, Glucocorticoids, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Insulin Resistance, Signal Transduction, Glucose Metabolism Disorders
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