Association between low plasma levels of dexamethasone and elevated levels of cortisol in psychiatric patients given dexamethasone
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (12), 1619-1620
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.12.1619
Abstract
In psychiatric inpatients, positive results on 40 dexamethasone suppression tests (elevated cortisol levels) were strongly associated with low plasma levels of dexamethasone. Bioavailability or pharmacokinetic factors may contribute importantly to the outcome of the dexamethasone suppression test.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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