Lack of effects of hospitalization and oral contraceptives on DST results in control subjects

• Published in: Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 22; no. 12; pp. 1499 - 1502
• Main Authors: D'haenen, Hugo, de Weert, Denise, Ansseau, Marc
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.12.1987; Elsevier Science; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Adult; Belgium; Biological and medical sciences; Biology; Clinical Research; Contraception; Contraceptive Methods; Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal; Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal - administration & dosage; Depression; Depressive Disorder; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Developed Countries; Dexamethasone; Diseases; Endocrine System; Estrogens; Estrogens - administration & dosage; Europe; Examinations And Diagnoses; Family Planning; Female; Hormones; Hospitalization; Human; Human Volunteers; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Hydrocortisone - blood; Laboratory Examinations And Diagnoses; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders; Miscellaneous; Oral Contraceptives; Physiology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Research Methodology; Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie; Screening; Social & behavioral sciences, psychology; Stress, Psychological; Stress, Psychological - complications; Techniques and methods; Traitement & psychologie clinique; Treatment & clinical psychology; Western Europe; Human; Pharmacologic test; Methodology; Estrogen; Contraception; Hospitalization; Stress; Dexamethasone test; Affective disorder; Test validation; Major depression; Error diagnostic; Hormonal investigation; Hypothalamohypophysocorticoadrenal axis; Laboratory Examinations And Diagnoses; Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Europe; Depression; Biology; Hormones; Family Planning; Research Methodology; Examinations And Diagnoses; Endocrine System; Diseases; Western Europe; Screening; Developed Countries; Belgium; Clinical Research; Mental Disorders; Contraceptive Methods; Human Volunteers; Physiology; Oral Contraceptives
• ISSN: 0006-3223; 1873-2402
• DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(87)90113-2

The effect of oral contraceptive use and hospitalization stress on the results of the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) were assessed. This test, in which 1 mg dexamethasone is given at 11:00 p.m., and blood cortisol is analyzed the following day, is used as an indicator or major or endogenous de...