Short-course, low-dose betamethasone therapy causes only marginal and transient hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis suppression

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 499-504

  Snyman, J R ^a   De Sommers, K ^a   Van Wyk, M ^a   Blom, M W ^a   Martini, N D ^a   Steinmann, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CREATININE; HYDROCORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

EID: 0034923211     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00044011-200121070-00005     Document Type: Article

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