Social media is fixated on “cortisol face,” which describes the appearance of round, puffy, or moon-shaped cheeks. While high cortisol levels can contribute to this appearance, it's primarily ...

Cushing syndrome is an uncommon condition when the ... Common symptoms include a red, round face; easy bruising and poor wound healing; high blood pressure; excessive hair growth in the face ...

Symptoms of Cushing's syndrome include weight gain, a round "moon" face, easy bruising, fat around the base of the neck and the shoulders, stretch marks around the abdomen, hips, breasts and ...

And indeed, elevated cortisol is a hallmark feature of Cushing syndrome (CS), but there ... Today, the term "moon face" has been replaced with "round face," which is considered more encompassing ...

But in the movie, Amy references her recent Cushing syndrome diagnosis, which has caused her face to be "puffier than normal." In one scene, Amy's character Lainey is in a maternity store when a ...

“It’s important for clinicians to be able distinguish between presentations due to other pathophysiologies, identify the unique constellation of Cushing ... of a round, plethoric face is ...

(For the uninitiated, Cushing syndrome is a disorder caused by elevated cortisol in the blood. It leads to a puffy, red, round face.) Schumer then realized that the steroid injections she was ...

There are many such reasons for Cushing Syndrome. It can also result from ... around the mid-section and upper back, a ‘round full face’, dubbed as ‘moon face’, fat accumulation between ...

Ghalib says. But Dr. Buettner points out that Cushing syndrome is rare and is highly unlikely to just cause a rounded face. “To claim that an isolated round face without these other symptoms is ...

“I suspect most people who have a round face don’t have Cushing’s syndrome,” he added. Nonetheless, Dr. Psomadakis said she was increasingly seeing patients come in with concerns about ...