Cushing’s disease (CD) is a costly disease, both in terms of its cost to the patient-physical, emotional, and financial-and its cost to society. The costs to the patient are represented by the increased mortality risk, about three-five fold in untreated disease, and the physical costs associated with its significant comorbidities – hypertension, diabetes, cardiac disease,… Continue Reading

Previous studies showed that patients with active Cushing’s disease have cognitive impairments, especially concerning memory functions. Cognition entails the process of thought and incorporates several concepts like memory, association, attention, perception, and problem solving. Those previous studies in patients with active (thus untreated) Cushing’s disease reported impairments in memory, visual- and spatial information, reasoning, verbal… Continue Reading