Study of the Steroid Hormone Milieu in Obese Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •patients suffering from severe systemic pathologies, fever, chronic inflammatory states known to cause PCR \>10 mg/dL
• •use of corticosteroids at the time of enrollment
• •the patient's poor understanding of spoken and written Italian
• •patients suffering from primary pathologies of the testicle, known at enrollment
• •patients suffering from hypothalamic-pituitary or adrenal pathologies already known at the time of enrollment