ECE2016 Eposter Presentations Adrenal cortex (to include Cushing's) (85 abstracts)
The role of DHEAS in diagnosis of subclinical hypercortisolism in patients with adrenal incidentalomas
Ljiljana Marina 1, , Miomira Ivovic 1, , Milina Tancic-Gajic 1, , Zorana Arizanovic 1, , Jelena Milin-Lazovic 2, , Dragana Rakovic 1, , Zorana Stojanovic 1, , Isidora Petkovic 1 , Tijana Petkovic 1 & Svetlana Vujovic 1,
1Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 3Institute of Medical Statistics and Informatics, Belgrade, Serbia.
At present there are no unified diagnostic criteria for subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) in patients with adrenal incidentalomas (AI). Recently it has been proposed that an age and gender specific DHEAS ratio (calculated by dividing DHEAS by the lower limit of the respective reference range) has a significant diagnostic value in detection of SH.
The aim was to evaluate the value of DHEAS as a diagnostic tool for SH. Retrospectively we evaluated 140 AI patients admitted to Department for obesity, reproductive and metabolic diseases, Clinic for endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic diseases, Clinical centre of Serbia. SH was diagnosed if a patient had at least two out of three criteria: 1mg overnight dexamethasone cortisol (1 mg dex) ≥83 nmol/l, suppressed ACTH (below 14 ng/l) and midnight cortisol ≥150 nmol/l. Seventy-five patients had nonfunctional AI (NAI), mean age 60.23±11.60 years, mean BMI 28.71±5.56 kg/m2 and mean DHEAS 1.66±1.27 μmol/l. Sixty-five patients had SH, mean age 59.45±7.95 years, BMI 28.53±4.79 kg/m2, DHEAS 0.70±0.53 μmol/l. We used Mann–Whitney U test, ROC curve and linear regression analysis.
There was no significant difference in terms of age and BMI (P>0.05). DHEAS and DHEAS ratio levels were significantly lower in patients with SH (P<0.001). However, we could not identify the value that would be specific and/or sensitive enough for the detection of SH. Univariate analysis with 1 mg dex being the dependent showed that both DHEAS (P=0.004, β=−0.250) and DHEAS ratio (P=0.004, β=−0.252) had a significant predictive value. However, this significance got lost in the multivariate regression analysis showing that the only significant predictors were midnight cortisol (P<0.001, β=0.627) and ACTH (P=0.003, β=−0.203).
In conclusion, even though our study did not identify the specific cut off DHEAS value for diagnosis of SH, DHEAS proved to be significantly lower in SH than in NAI making it a valuable additional diagnostic tool for SH.
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