The effect of age on dexamethasone suppression test results in alcoholic patients
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (2) , 237-239
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.2.237
Abstract
The authors studied the effects of age, liver function, mean corpuscular volume, and major depression on cortisol concentrations following the dexamethasone suppression test in 31 alcoholics. Only age was significantly correlated with cortisol levels, and it appeared to be an independent effect.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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