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The aim of this study was to assess basal cortisol concentrations and the cortisol response to ACTH stimulation as well as their prognostic importance, and also to determine the effects of the physiological-dose steroid therapy on mortality in patients with sepsis.
On the other hand, obesity in humans does not generally entail elevated plasma cortisol [ 9 10 11 12 13 ] and it is not clear how effective reduction of glucocorticoid production would be to reverse obesity if glucocorticoid production were otherwise normal.
It is known that the plasma cortisol level increases in critical illnesses and that basal cortisol levels have a positive correlation with severity of illness and prognosis.
In the steroid therapy group, the mean basal cortisol level was 52.
Plasma cortisol concentrations were determined by radioimmunoassay with a commercially available kit (ICN Biomedicals, Inc, Costa Mesa, California, USA).