Demographic Characteristics, Etiology, and Comorbidities of Patients with Cushing’s Syndrome: A 10-Year Retrospective Study at a Large General Hospital in China

Table 2

Sex and age distribution at first admission for different etiologies in CS patients.

Characteristics	ACTH-dependent				ACTH-independent					Overall
	CD	EAS	Uncertain cause^a	Total	ACA	ACC^a	BMAH	PPNAD	Total
(%)	1040 (63.0)	98 (5.9)	20 (1.2)	1158 (70.1)	346 (20.9)	16 (1.0)	102 (6.2)	30 (1.8)	494 (29.9)	1652
Female/male (male (%))	838/202 (19.4^∆†)	48/50 (51.0^∆)	12/8 (40.0)	898/260 (22.5)	316/30 (8.7)	13/3 (18.8)	41/61 (59.8^∆)	21/9 (30.0^∆†)	391/103 (20.9)	1289/363 (22.0)
Age at first admission (y)
	^∆‡†	^‡†			^‡†		^‡
Range	8-80	7-82	18-68	7-82	13-68	24-70	23-76	6-58	6-76	6-82

versus EAS; ^∆ versus ACA; ^† versus BMAH; ^‡ versus PPNAD. ^aACC and ACTH-dependent CS with uncertain cause were excluded from intergroup comparisons because of small sample size and ambiguous etiology, respectively.