Serum cortisol levels in patients admitted to the department of medicine: Prognostic correlations and effects of age, infection, and comorbidity

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 61-67

  Rotman Pikielny, Pnina ^a   Roash, Vanessa ^a   Chen, Ofer ^a   Limor, Rona ^a   Stern, Naftali ^a   Gur, Hanan Guzner ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Medicine B ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Comorbidity; Cortisol; Hospitalized patients; Infection

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFECTION; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINE CULTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747337555     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200608000-00002     Document Type: Article

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