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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Addison's disease"”.
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Psychosocial Stress and Addison's Disease
… kann die Untersuchung von Patienten mit Morbus Addison angesehen werden. Patienten mit dieser Erkrankung können aufgrund zerstörter Nebennierenrinden kein Cortisol produzieren. Dieses Fehlen von Cortisol wird medikamentös ausgeglichen. Da bislang keine experimentellen Daten zu den aus der …
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The aetiopathogenesis, cardiovascular and metabolic complications, and pharmacogenomics of Addison's disease in South Africa
… a number of unanswered research questions in Addison's Disease: investigate whether autoimmunity is the predominant cause of Addison's disease in South Africa and if a human leukocyte (HLA) DQ antigen association exists; the extent to which lipids, lipoproteins and biochemical markers of …
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Assessing the effect of Addison's disease on patient quality of life within the South African context
… who suffer a combination of other autoimmune diseases have a lower QOL. The main instrument used for this research was the Rotterdam QOL questionnaire.
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Associations between sleep architecture, cortisol concentrations, cognitive performance, and quality of life in patients with Addison's disease
… mediating those relations. Because patients with Addison’s disease (AD) experience consistent and predictable periods of sub- and supra-physiological cortisol concentrations (due to lifelong glucocorticoid replacement therapy), and because they frequently report disrupted sleep and poor memory, …
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The plasma corticosteroids: their determination and normal variations
… as varied as precocious puberty, virilisation; Addison's disease; Cushing's syndrome, and the newly described hyperaldosteronism syndrome of Conn (1955), a gland which has been implicated in the parthenogenesis of diabetes (Hoet and Lukens, 195; Jackson, 1955), hypertension (Sepeika, 1948, …
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The Quantitative Determination of 3-7-Hydroxycorticosterone
… leads to high and irregular values, even in Addison's disease, because of non-steroidal contaminants(2). The Porter-Stilber reaction using; phenyl hydrazine and sulfuric acid(6) is one cf the most widely used and specific reactions for estimations of 17 — hyciroxycorticoids. However, …
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Lived Experiences of Women with Hidden Disabilities: A Phenomenologically Based Study
… of each participant consisted of the following: Addison's disease, multiple sclerosis, Stargardt's Dystrophy, and unexplained infertility.</p> <p>Participants articulately gave voice to their lived experiences of living with hidden chronic illnesses and/or disabilities. In terms of experiences of …