Late-night salivary cortisol is unaltered in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), irrespective of disease phenotype, and in obese women, irrespective of …

HM Ozkaya, FE Keskin, A Tuten, E Korkmaz, HZ Oktay… - Endocrine Practice, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective: To determine cutoff values of late-night salivary cortisol (LNSC) using an
electrochemiluminescent immunoassay and investigate whether the diagnostic performance
of the assay is influenced by the presence of obesity or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Methods: A total of 124 subjects comprising 25 patients with Cushing syndrome (CS), 44
with PCOS (22 nonobese and 22 obese), 21 with constitutional obesity (CO), and 34 healthy
subjects (HS) were included in the study. Two consecutive LNSC samples were collected …
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