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Since fasting, insulin deficiency, and leptin insufficiency also lead to an elevation in plasma glucocorticoids [ 8 ] , and adrenalectomy of leptin-deficient ob/ob mice largely normalizes hypothalamic gene expression in these mice [ 9 ] , it is plausible that elevated glucocorticoids may mediate some effects of nutritional state on hypothalamic gene expression.
· In the advancing process from sepsis to septic shock, adrenal insufficiency was not so frequent as supposed.
Unfortunately, cortisol levels and adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) response was not routinely measured in patients with infection, and adrenal insufficiency may have been underestimated in this group.
Ten (34%) patients had reversible hyperbilirubinemia and 5 (17%) had WHO grades III-IV renal insufficiency.
Adrenal insufficiency was found in one of our patients with no evidence of infection.