Nocturnal Salivary Cortisol Is an Accurate Non-Invasive Test to Assess Endogenous Hypercortisolism in Children with Obesity and a Clinical Phenotype Suspicious for Cushing’s Syndrome
Cushing’s syndrome (CS) constitutes one of the most challenging diagnostic assessments for paediatric endocrinologists. The clinical presentation of some children with exogenous obesity overlaps with those observed in hypercortisolism states. Accurate, noninvasive first-line tests are necessary to avoid falsepositive results in...