Another patient developed a large hump on the nape of his neck like a buffalo's. They put on dangerous visceral fat, the kind under abdominal muscles most associated with heart attacks and diabetes. The description, above, is essentially identical to the set of symptoms called Cushing's syndrome.
Body fat is redistributed in a characteristic way.
The clinical picture produced by prolonged increases in plasma glucocorticoids is called Cushing's syndrome. The function of this single organ is simply altered. I have to explain the basics of my explanation of AIDS to explain the PI syndrome. This was first supported in 1989. Low DHEA types do not mount an effective DHEA response so they continually produce DHEA to kill these cells.