{"id":240569,"date":"2026-07-10T00:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-silent-hormone-how-adrenal-tumors-quietly-raise-cardiovascular-risk-over-time"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:14:54","slug":"the-silent-hormone-how-adrenal-tumors-quietly-raise-cardiovascular-risk-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-silent-hormone-how-adrenal-tumors-quietly-raise-cardiovascular-risk-over-time","title":{"rendered":"The silent hormone: How adrenal tumors quietly raise cardiovascular risk over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-silent-hormone-how-adrenal-tumors-quietly-raise-cardiovascular-risk-over-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major new study, published in <i>The Lancet Diabetes &amp; Endocrinology<\/i>, has shown that cortisol levels in patients with adrenal tumors are far less stable than previously assumed. The study also found that those in whom cortisol remains persistently elevated carry a significantly greater risk of worsening high blood pressure and a heavier overall cardiometabolic burden.<\/p>\n<p>Cortisol, often referred to as the \u201cstress hormone,\u201d is a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands that acts as a master regulator of metabolism, blood pressure and immune function. When benign tumors form on the adrenal glands (found incidentally in 3%\u20137% of adults), they can cause the body to produce cortisol independently of normal regulatory controls, a condition known as mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS).<\/p>\n<p>Until now, it was unclear how cortisol levels in these patients change over time, and what that means for their long-term health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major new study, published in The Lancet Diabetes &amp; Endocrinology, has shown that cortisol levels in patients with adrenal tumors are far less stable than previously assumed. The study also found that those in whom cortisol remains persistently elevated carry a significantly greater risk of worsening high blood pressure and a heavier overall cardiometabolic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}