Effect of multiple time point sampling on the sensitivity of the dexamethasone suppression test
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (7) , 909-910
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.7.909
Abstract
Dexamethasone suppression test sensitivity in 188 patients [with possible major affective disorder] was 61.6% when cortisol was measured at 6 time points and 48.5% when cortisol was measured twice. More patients had abnormal cortisol levels at 2000 h than at 1600 or 2200 h.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Dexamethasone Suppression Test for MelancholiaThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
- A Specific Laboratory Test for the Diagnosis of MelancholiaArchives of General Psychiatry, 1981