Cardiovascular events in patients with mild autonomous cortisol secretion: analysis with artificial neural networks.

Background: The independent role of mild autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS) in influencing the cardiovascular event (CVE) occurrence is a topic of interest. We investigated the role of mild ACS in the CVE occurrence in patients with adrenal incidentaloma (AI) by standard statistics and artificial neural networks (ANNs).

Methods: We analyzed a retrospective record of 518 AI patients.