Severe fatigue in patients with adrenal insufficiency: Physical, psychosocial and endocrine determinants

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 293-301

  Giebels, V ^a   Repping Wuts, H ^a   Bleijenberg, G ^a   Kroese, J M ^a   Stikkelbroeck, N ^a   Hermus, A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia; Cortisol; Fatigue; Primary adrenal insufficiency; Secondary adrenal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

1 TESTOSTERONE; CORTISONE ACETATE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; PRASTERONE; PREDNISONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACROMEGALY; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHONDROSARCOMA; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PROLACTINOMA; SALIVA LEVEL; SECONDARY ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SALIVA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84900556231     PISSN: 03914097     EISSN: 17208386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40618-013-0042-9     Document Type: Article

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