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Experts provide insights on the body's stress response during critical illness

January 10th, 2018

Critical illness causes the body to initiate a stress response, which activates the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis to increase the availability of the stress hormone cortisol.

In a new Comprehensive Physiology article, experts give an overview of the adrenocortical stress response, with a point-by-point discussion on the causes and consequences observed during critical illness.

They also discuss potential failure or dysfunction of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and current diagnostic and therapeutic options.

More information:
Bram Peeters et al, Adrenocortical Stress Response during the Course of Critical Illness, Comprehensive Physiology (2017). DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c170022

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