Mental Fatigue and Executive Dysfunction in Patients with Cushing’s Syndrome in Remission

Table 1

Background characteristics and sociodemographic status in 51 patients with CS in remission and 51 healthy controls matched for age, gender, and educational level.

	Patients	Controls
Age at follow-up (yr)	52.5 ± 14.6	53.6 ± 13.9	0.7
Age at diagnosis (yr)	36.4 ± 13.6
Duration of remission (yr)	12 (4–18)
BMI	27.0 ± 6.6	25.9 ± 5.2	0.4
Education level (%)			0.9
Elementary school	22	22
Upper secondary education	51	55
University education	27	23
Smoking habits (%)			0.9
Nonsmoker	58	53
Ex-smoker	32	37
Smoker	10	10
Marital status (%)			0.9
Single/divorced	27	27
Married	69	71
Widow	4	2
Number of children	2 (0–2)	2 (1-2)	0.3
Employment (%)			0.09
Full-time	34	51
Part-time	30	20
Sick leave/disability pension	10	0
Retirement	26	29